on Aug 11, 2026
Jackie Flynn Mogensen , Breaking News Reporter – Scientific America
Stephan: Welcome to climate change, and an Arctic warmer that Seattle Washington. If Americans don’t vote into office a Democrat controlled Congress that impeaches anti-climate change morons like Trump and Vance, after two more years the 2040 civilization altering climate crisis will be an increasing unavoidable certainty.
The Arctic today Credit: Anato l Er / Getty
The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far.
In recent days, the Selagoncy meteorological station, near the border of the Arctic Circle, recorded 93.0 degrees F (33.9 degrees C); another station, Olenek, logged 90.9 degrees F (32.7 degrees C), according to data collected by weather information service Ogimet and reported by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. To put that in perspective, these temperatures are on par for Orlando, Fla., at this time of year.
“Studies in recent years have shown that the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than the rest of the planet due to feedback from the loss of sea ice—so it is not surprising that we are seeing these all-time record temperatures at high latitudes,” says independent meteorologist Alan Gerard.
It’s a dangerous feedback loop: as sea ice melts, the Arctic