The Barents Sea has become about one degree colder over the last five years, says the title of an article today on NRK.no. It speaks about two marine research teams from Norway and Russia which have been collaborating on measuring and collecting data since 2004 and their report is mentioning that colder seas move the ice sheet edge toward south since 2016. They point to reversal in warming trend, "until 2016, temperatures in the Barents Sea increased. Then it turned."
Whereas article speaks of cooling trend, at the same time the Norwegian research team is full of global warming sentiment. Perhaps it is not long before they'll see it freeze.
One reason is that the water coming to the area from the Atlantic has been cooler. The ice edge is also affected by how much ice comes in from the north and east, wind directions and whether the ice melts or freezes.
Whereas article speaks of cooling trend, at the same time the Norwegian research team is full of global warming sentiment. Perhaps it is not long before they'll see it freeze.
Meanwhile mountains are buried under much snow that the power lines are snowed down on Sognefjellet.Temperatures in the southwest are now down to about the same level as they were in the early 2000s, says researcher at the Institute of Marine Research, Randi Ingvaldsen.
Ingvaldsen says these are natural fluctuations and says it is not an argument against human-caused global warming.
Natural temperature fluctuations are greater than man-made when you see variations in the short term, between years. Man-made raises the temperature curve all the time. There is no doubt that the Barents Sea is warmer today than in the 1950s, says Ingvaldsen.
The cold period we are entering now seems to be warmer than the previous cold period. Just as the warm period we had behind us was warmer than the previous heat. It fluctuates, but it swings around an increasing trend in temperature, says Arneberg.