Global Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 14:35
in Earth & Climate
Based on its long-term orbit, Earth should be heading into an ice age . But instead of continuing to cool--as it had been for at least the past 2,000 years--the Arctic has started to warm. And the reason is humans' impact on the composition of the atmosphere, new research suggests. [More]
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