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Title: Life on the front line of climate change
Post by: thedoc on 28/07/2016 17:07:29

Researchers are looking into how life will change for people who live in the Arctic due to climate change.

Read the article (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/life-on-the-front-line-of-climate-change/) then tell us what you think...

Title: Re: Life on the front line of climate change
Post by: alancalverd on 28/07/2016 17:19:42

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Observations show that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of world;

Would anyone care to guess what this means, or to explain how it happens? Or even write it in scientific language? 

Title: Re: Life on the front line of climate change
Post by: jeffreyH on 28/07/2016 18:18:32

The Independent had a story on this earlier in the year. Not that what they say is established beyond doubt but it does reference work by climatologists.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-warming-why-record-breaking-melting-is-just-the-beginning-a6900411.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-warming-why-record-breaking-melting-is-just-the-beginning-a6900411.html)

Bearing in mind that all news media will hype the story to some degree to attract readers.