American Thinker: Scare Watch: 'Arctic warming is unprecedented'
January 25, 2009
Scare Watch: 'Arctic warming is unprecedented'
By The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
The scare:
In late January 2009, a U.S. government report on Arctic climate, prepared by an international team of 37 climatologists, concluded that the recent rapid warming of polar temperatures and shrinking of multi-year Arctic sea ice are 'highly unusual compared to events from previous thousands of years'. The report's summary says, 'Sustained warming of at least a few degrees' is probably enough 'to cause the nearly complete, eventual disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet, which would raise sea level by several metres.'
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Scare Watch: 'Arctic warming is unprecedented'
By The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
The scare:
In late January 2009, a U.S. government report on Arctic climate, prepared by an international team of 37 climatologists, concluded that the recent rapid warming of polar temperatures and shrinking of multi-year Arctic sea ice are 'highly unusual compared to events from previous thousands of years'. The report's summary says, 'Sustained warming of at least a few degrees' is probably enough 'to cause the nearly complete, eventual disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet, which would raise sea level by several metres.'
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