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Ecological consequences of a warming planet – Earth’s Caribou population has collapsed – Foreshadowing ecological trends across the rest of the planet

By Bruce Melton PEUncategorized

The International Polar Year resulted in this study by a team of 25 Arctic researchers. Seven degrees of warming in some parts of the Arctic have changed more than just the average temperature. The Arctic biosphere is collapsing. Arctic sea ice is projected to disappear like it has not done in 14 million years (here)….

November 6, 2009

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Ecological consequences of a warming planet – Earth’s Caribou population has collapsed – Foreshadowing ecological trends across the rest of the planet

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