Warming of Ocean, Not Just of Atmosphere, Behind Loss of Glaciation in Article Littoral, Norwegian Scholars Conclude

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Mar. 3 – In a finding with enormous implications for Arctic littoral states, including the Russian Federation, a group of Norwegian researchers have concluded that the warming of the oceans and not just of the atmosphere is behind the declining size of glaciers emptying into the Arctic.
    The study (Foss, Ø., Maton, J., Moholdt, G. et al. Ocean warming drives immediate mass loss from calving glaciers in the high Arctic. Nature Communications 15, 10460 (2024)) focused on the situation in the Svalbard archipelago and his reported and reviewed at thebarentsobserver.com/news/surprising-discovery-about-svalbards-largest-glacier/425753.
    It suggests that the impact of Atlantification, the warming of the Arctic as the result of the influx of warmer waters from the North Atlantic, may have an eve more rapid impact on glaciers and adjoining land areas than anyone had hitherto suggested (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/atlantification-of-arctic-ocean.html).  
    That will have enormous consequences for many countries, including the Russian Federation, there first in Novaya Zemlya and Franz Joseph Land but then across the entire northern coast of that country where this component of global warming will need to be taken into consideration in all projections of global warming there.