"Never have so many Arctic indicators been brought together in a single paper." And the findings spell trouble for the entire planet.

"The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth."

"Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences."

One NOAA oceanographer warns that even if humanity "stopped the greenhouse gases at their current concentrations today, the atmosphere would still continue to warm for next couple decades to maybe a century."

Researchers documented 13 never-before-seen viruses that have been lying dormant, frozen in thick ice, over tens of thousands of years.

"We know that big changes are happening across the Arctic landscape," said the lead researcher, "but this is the first time we've been able to deploy technology to see that changes are happening offshore too."

"This new Arctic record is one of a series of observations... that sound the alarm bells about our changing climate."

"There are huge ramifications of these changes," said the lead researcher, "all of which have implications on wildlife populations and human livelihoods."

“The implications of this speak to the pipeline’s integrity and the effect climate change is having on pipeline safety in general.”

"No one on Earth is immune to Arctic warming."