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12-09-2002, 08:08 PM
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<font color="red" size="5">New Arctic studies point to warming </font>
Scientists see ‘compelling evidence something is changing’
<font size="1">NASA satellites and radar helped construct this map of the Arctic, which scientists are using to study how and why the Arctic's sea ice cover is changing. Sea ice is a key barometer of global climate conditions.</font>
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<font size="2">MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS</font>
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 — Although surrounded by this tourist city’s famed sights, earth scientists meeting here this week are instead eyeing issues from around the globe, and in particular new studies indicating a chilling pattern: The northernmost reaches of the Earth are warming — reducing the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean, melting the ice sheet in Greenland and spreading shrubs into the Alaskan tundra.
TAKEN INDIVIDUALLY, the changes suggest localized alterations in the climate, not global shifts that might then be traced to manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, which many scientists fear are warming the globe.
But the scientists who presented the studies felt that taken together, they provide dramatic evidence of much wider warming.
“If you look at all the data sets together, they do provide compelling evidence something is changing over a great area,” Larry Hinzman, of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, told peers and reporters Saturday at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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Read more at http://www.msnbc.com/news/845113.asp
‘By 2050 ... we might be approaching no ice at all during the summer months.’— MARK SERREZE, National Snow and Ice Data Center
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<font color="red" size="5">New Arctic studies point to warming </font>
Scientists see ‘compelling evidence something is changing’
<font size="1">NASA satellites and radar helped construct this map of the Arctic, which scientists are using to study how and why the Arctic's sea ice cover is changing. Sea ice is a key barometer of global climate conditions.</font>
http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/7981f9d576a086/www.msnbc.com/news/1721663.jpg
<font size="2">MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS</font>
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 — Although surrounded by this tourist city’s famed sights, earth scientists meeting here this week are instead eyeing issues from around the globe, and in particular new studies indicating a chilling pattern: The northernmost reaches of the Earth are warming — reducing the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean, melting the ice sheet in Greenland and spreading shrubs into the Alaskan tundra.
TAKEN INDIVIDUALLY, the changes suggest localized alterations in the climate, not global shifts that might then be traced to manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, which many scientists fear are warming the globe.
But the scientists who presented the studies felt that taken together, they provide dramatic evidence of much wider warming.
“If you look at all the data sets together, they do provide compelling evidence something is changing over a great area,” Larry Hinzman, of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, told peers and reporters Saturday at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
[/ QUOTE ]
Read more at http://www.msnbc.com/news/845113.asp
‘By 2050 ... we might be approaching no ice at all during the summer months.’— MARK SERREZE, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Is there anything really new here?
MaximumSam, I'm sure you love this!