NOAA's 2022 “Arctic Report Card' shows climate change pushed air temperatures to their sixth warmest on record
id-September, 2022, was not a good time to be living along the Bering Coast in Western Alaska. That was the week Typhoon Merbok, a Category One storm, struck the region, packing sustained winds of 130 km/h , causing 15 m waves and inundating communities along 1,600 km of coastline. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavyon Sept. 17, saying at the time, “The storm hitting the coastal regions of western Alaska is unprecedented.
The report stressed that while the poor environmental health of the Arctic is bad for the planet as a whole, it is the Indigenous people and other locals who are most immediately paying the price in a host of ways. During the September typhoon, for example, homes were flooded, airport runways were underwater, populations of towns and villages were forced into public shelters and diesel fuel tanks, which power many homes, were upended.
Seal and walrus hunting has been affected too. The retreat of sea ice forces hunters to travel as much as 160 km in small skiffs to reach ice floes where their prey can be found. Many of the floes, however, are thinning, making setting foot on them yet another peril. Fatal falls through sea, lake, and river ice are on the rise too, the report reveals, disproportionately affecting Indigenous people, who live along the bodies of water.
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