Long-term cooling trend in Arctic abruptly reverses, signaling potential for sea rise
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 14:21
in Earth & Climate
A new study led by Northern Arizona University and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates Arctic temperatures have reversed from a long-term cooling trend and are now the warmest they have been in at least 2,000 years, bad news for the world's coastal cities facing rising seas in the coming decades.