Arctic Death Spiral Update: What Happens In The Arctic Affects Weather Everywhere Else

This was the hottest four-month start (January to April) of any year on record, according to newly-released satellite data.

The Arctic continues its multi-month trend of off-the-charts warmth. So it’s no surprise that Arctic sea ice continues to melt at a record pace. New research, however, finds that warming-driven Arctic sea ice loss causes high-pressure systems to get stuck in places like Greenland, leading to accelerated melt of the land-locked ice that drives sea level rise worldwide....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/03/3774789/april-record-arctic-ice-loss/