Thursday, October 24, 2013

Unprecedented Warmth in Arctic: Last 100 Years May Be Warmest in 120,000 Years

The retreat of the sea ice has been faster than predicted: Arctic September sea-ice extent from observations (thick orange line) together with the mean value (solid grey line) from 13 IPCC AR4 climate models and the variance (dotted black line) of models runs. (Credit: European Environment Agency) Click to enlarge.
Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new study.

Unprecedented Warmth in Arctic: Last 100 Years May Be Warmest in 120,000 Years
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