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Since the Earth is still moving away from the sun—it’s about 0.6 million miles farther during the Northern Hemisphere summer solstice than it was in 1 B.C.—it appears greenhouse gases began “overriding” the natural cooling of Earth in the middle of the last century, explains study coauthor Gifford Miller of CU-Boulder’s Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research. “We expect the Arctic will continue to warm in the coming decades, increasing land-based ice loss and triggering global increases in sea-level rise.”
U. COLORADO (US)—Arctic temperatures have reversed from a cooling trend and are now the warmest they have been in at least 2,000 years, according to new research. The findings are bad news for the world’s coastal cities facing rising seas in the coming decades. Continue…
