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10/11/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Arctic ocean, Climate Change, Long-term Temperature Patterns
Although the Arctic has been receiving less energy from the summer sun for the past 8,000 years, Arctic summer temperatures began climbing in 1900 and accelerated after 1950. The decade from 1999 to 2008 was the warmest in the Arctic in two millennia.  MORE >>