Thursday, December 6, 2012

Arctic climate change's un-glacial pace

San Francisco Chronicle: The Arctic's sea ice is shrinking, Greenland's ice cover is melting faster, areas of once-frozen tundra in Alaska are alive with plant growth, and wildfires during Southern summer heat waves are carrying soot to darken northern snowfields and speed the melting. And a year-end report from more than 140 scientists around the world concludes that climate change caused some of the strongest-ever environmental effects on the Arctic this year and the pace of change is far from slowing. Their research...

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Arctic-climate-change-s-un-glacial-pace-4095158.php
Enclosure: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard

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