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1 June 2006 Challenges of Climate Change: An Arctic Perspective
Robert W. Corell
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Climate change is being experienced particularly intensely in the Arctic. Arctic average temperature has risen at almost twice the rate as that of the rest of the world in the past few decades. Widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures present additional evidence of strong Arctic warming. These changes in the Arctic provide an early indication of the environmental and societal significance of global consequences. The Arctic also provides important natural resources to the rest of the world (such as oil, gas, and fish) that will be affected by climate change, and the melting of Arctic glaciers is one of the factors contributing to sea level rise around the globe. An acceleration of these climatic trends is projected to occur during this century, due to ongoing increases in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. These Arctic changes will, in turn, impact the planet as a whole.

Robert W. Corell "Challenges of Climate Change: An Arctic Perspective," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 35(4), 148-152, (1 June 2006). https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[148:COCCAA]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 June 2006
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