Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 10:28 in Earth & Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling this scenario have found that replacing tundra with trees will melt sea ice and greatly enhance warming over the entire Arctic region.

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