Apparently, not all the Arctic is warming to script. This is an interesting graph from PICES, titled The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events.

It is accompanied by this text:

Normally, a moderate El Niño (as in winter 2010) would have resulted in a warmer Bering Sea and La Niña in winter 2011, and weakening in spring would have supported cooler conditions. However, in recent years it appears that the location of the Aleutian Low had more influence on the Bering Sea in 2010 and 2011 than did the intensity of the low or the ENSO connection.

Additionally, the report suggests the ecosystem of the Bering sea is not so bad after all, with plankton and fish volume on the rise.

There’s too much to reproduce here, read the entire article at PICES here:

http://www.pices.int/publications/pices_press/volume19/v19_n2/pp_35-37_BS_June2011.pdf

h/t to reader “Rosey”

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