The Arctic is ground zero for climate change in many ways. Two recent studies put some perspective on the scope of the changes taking place and why theyâre happening.
The first study comes researchers based out of Germany and Russia. They used tree ring data to reconstruct summer temperature data over the past 400 years in Russiaâs Kola Peninsula. Some of their findings will make skeptics happy. They found that solar radiation played a major role in forcing Arctic temperatures for much of the time series, including a cooling trend between 1958 and 1990.
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