Dr. ROBERT CORELL (Chairman, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment): Climate change is a real issue now.
In fact, 30 years in the history of Arctic climate is no more than a blink.
However, these discoveries often are regions not very hospitable, such as an Arctic climate or areas with a high political risk.
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Information on Arctic Ice research can be found at The International Arctic Climate System Study, a global consortium of polar scientists.
Depending on the capricious whims of the extreme Arctic climate and calendar, thick clouds reveal remote fragments of the landscape as if concealing some great mystery, blinding sunshine illuminates the ice, or perpetual moonlight bathes it all in the strange, blue half-light of the polar night.
"There is quite a lot of suppression and non-discussion of issues that are difficult, and one of those is in fact methane, " he said, recalling a reluctance on the part of at least one senior scientists involved in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment to discuss the impact that a methane release might have.
Many of the challenges brought to the Arctic by climate change and economic development are the same as those faced around the world.
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about climate history recognizes that the Arctic experiences substantial climate swings about every 60-70 years due to entirely natural ocean oscillation cycles.
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But the net effect of the changing Alaskan Arctic on world climate remains unknown.
But the upside of Heilongjiang's arctic-like climate, which corresponds to that of neighbouring Russia, is that it is often close to the end of February before the sculptures start to melt.
Today we flew to Fairbanks and went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for presentations on the diversity of the Arctic Ocean and how climate change is impacting the region.
Yet this special report will suggest that warnings about Arctic conflict are, like the climate, overcooked.
Our mission when we left Victoria, British Columbia in June was to find out how climate change is impacting Arctic communities.
The environmental campaign Greenpeace says it has found evidence that walruses and other Arctic species are being affected by climate change.
The report found that some native Arctic species have also benefited from climate change, including wild reindeer on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
"Such a loss of Arctic sea ice has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself, " Sommerkorn said.
Climate change models of Arctic sea ice cover in September, the month when ice is usually at its minimum, suggest an average loss of 2.5 percent of ice cover per decade from 1953 to 2003.
Arctic ice helps regulate and temper the climate in many other parts of the world.
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In the longer term, the tagging information could also help to assess how climate change is affecting these Arctic animals.
According to The Guardian, the company picked the site in Lulea, which sits about 62 miles below the Arctic Circle, because of its chilly climate as well as the easy access to renewable energy.
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Since the Arctic as a whole is responding to climate change earlier and more acutely than the rest of the planet, we should think of it as an early warning system -- a proverbial canary in a coalmine.
Mr Cameron said Mr Barker, a Conservative MP who visited the Arctic Circle with him in 2006 to investigate climate change, was "doing an excellent job".
Together and separately, Darwin, Wedgwood and their friends classified fossils, made telescopes, created sparks of electricity, and came up with scores of ingenious suggestions for the world's improvement (this included towing icebergs from the Arctic to the equator to even out the climate).
The U.S. says that shrinking Arctic ice habitat, a product of a warming climate, puts polar bear populations in a precarious position.
Ann Daniels from Whimple and Pen Hadow from Dartmoor will be studying the Arctic sea ice to help scientists understand more about climate change.
For instance, sea ice is predicted to increasingly shrink as a result of climate change: the late-summer Arctic sea ice may vanish almost entirely by the middle of the century, triggering unprecedented maritime challenges, with an increase in shipping and oil and gas exploration in high-latitude waters previously covered in ice.
Climate change is turning the spotlight on the Arctic, and hopefully that will mean federal government help where it is needed to aid the Inuit in making wise choices for their future.
That makes the Arctic a textbook illustration of the commons-despoiling tragedy that climate change is.
Simulations were also used to extend the climate forcing results from central Greenland to the entire Arctic.
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Chris Barton, head of international energy security at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), told MPs that "we will still need more and new oil and gas production, and the likelihood is that some of that will come from the Arctic", even "if we hit our 2C (climate change) target".
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