Arctic Tipping Points - #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares
Arctic Tipping Points - #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares
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Arctic Tipping Points - #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares
The walrus research conclusions are much better supported, less biased by climate change rhetoric, and lack the hubris present in the polar bear paper
You’ll often hear about the “Ice albedo effect” as a supposed tipping point that the IPCC is ignoring. The idea is that as the Arctic ice melts, it absorbs more heat from the sun, and so warms the planet. What they ignore is that as the planet warms there are also more clouds, especially in tropical regions.
For climate scientists, it can be hard to sleep at night, but they can't talk about it.
A keystone structure in Canada's High Arctic is under threat of collapse, and it would take with it a globally unique and fertile piece of the Arctic ecosystem, according to a new report published in the journal Nature Communications.