Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I had to post this, even if only because of the title
A canary in the coal mine
The Arctic seems to be getting warmer. So what? A scientific team of some 300 scientists have spent the past four years investigating the matter in a process known as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). The group, drawn from the eight countries with territories inside the Arctic Circle, has just issued a report called “Impacts of a Warming Arctic”, a lengthy summary of the principal scientific findings.
“Climate change in the Arctic is a reality now!” insists the head of the team, Robert Corell, an oceanographer with the American Meteorological Society. “The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth.”
This article in The Economist is actually fairly balanced, looking at both the backers and the nay-sayers of global warming.
A canary in the coal mine
The Arctic seems to be getting warmer. So what? A scientific team of some 300 scientists have spent the past four years investigating the matter in a process known as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). The group, drawn from the eight countries with territories inside the Arctic Circle, has just issued a report called “Impacts of a Warming Arctic”, a lengthy summary of the principal scientific findings.
“Climate change in the Arctic is a reality now!” insists the head of the team, Robert Corell, an oceanographer with the American Meteorological Society. “The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth.”
This article in The Economist is actually fairly balanced, looking at both the backers and the nay-sayers of global warming.
