Climate Change Elucidated

May 3, 2008

Major Arctic Sea Ice Melt Expected This Summer

Filed under: Climate Change News — @ 5:40 am

The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. … Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute to global warming….”And there is very little chance for the climate to return to the conditions of 20 years ago,” he added. … “So there is a scientific reason for why we’re not seeing large changes in the Antarctic like we’re seeing in the Arctic,” he said….There is agreement between weather observations, the output of computer climate models and scientific expectations for what should happen, added Francis. … All the evidence points toward human-made changes at both poles, she said, a conclusion that “further depletes the arsenals of those who insist that human-caused c limate change is nothing to worry about….And, Marshall added, all studies now show that human activities are the drivers of climate change in the Antarctic….

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