October 9, 2014

Climate Change Porn 22: High Arctic Desert

From the New York Times: Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic, by Michael Becker:

As a doctoral candidate at McGill University in Montreal, I have spent three years researching how the planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecology of the high Arctic.

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On land, as the buried ice melts underneath the soil, the thaw slump causes the collapse of more and more of the ground surface, creating dramatic landscapes of change

The high Arctic is changing. The interactions among all the elements of the region are complex, especially given the added influence of human-driven climate change. And that’s the particular threat of climate change: When we disturb one aspect of the system, we affect all the other parts that rely on it, with unforeseen consequences for the Arctic and the entire planet.

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Collected comments of concern and response from the Prime Minister:

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