More Arctic storms
Global warming will create more extreme weather in the Barents Sea and other Arctic Oceans, according to a new study from the Bjerknes Center for Climate Change in Norway.
The bad news is that as the sea ice retreats you open up a lot of new areas to this kind of extreme weather, says researcher Erik Kolstad at the Bjerknes Center for Climate Change in Norway, interviewed by Reuters.
Fisheries, oil and gas or shipping would be vulnerable to extremes caused by polar lows and arctic fronts, the researchers write in their report.
Erik Kolstad said that there would be less ice and more storms, for instance, in the eastern Barents Sea where Russian group Gazprom aims to develop the giant Shtokman gas field.
