The Antarctic "blue clouds" arrive annuall but the special South Pole cloud blanket strangely appeared earlier in mid-November. Meteorologists are baffled by the clouds' behavior, attributing it to global warming.
NASA reports that the South Pole's annual "notilucent" or night-shining "blue clouds" arrived earlier than expected. Observed by meteorologists since 1885, they earlier believed it to be a smoky discharge from the Indonesian Krakatoa volcano. Scientists hypothesize the early arrival of the clouds as a signal of severing global warming.
According to CSMonitor.com, NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesopsphere (AIM) spacecraft -- which has observed the clouds since 2007 -- the clouds have continuously formed each year. Scientists have also observed the clouds have "intensified and spread" in recent years. Scientists believe that the notilucent clouds give a clue to the mesosphere and its connections to other parts of the atmosphere and climate.
Global policy towards environmental preservation is positive but enforcement of such policies are lax. Despite the Paris environmental agreements during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, carbon footprint from the world's developed nations have yet to ease.
Aside from the earlier arrival of the notilucents, the arctic has been running wild for some time due to global warming for quite some time. According to The Scientific American, sea ice growth has slowed to a crawl and ice caps have shrunk. The shrinking of ice caps means higher sea levels -- a potential factor that could destabilize current climate conditions.
Greenland's reported massive glacier melts give evidence that global warming is becoming severe and in the next 20 years, some parts of cities could be swallowed up by higher sea levels. The unbalanced heating and cooling of different ocean areas could give rise to frequent low-pressure areas that form into cyclones and storms with stronger winds in the near future.
