Arctic challenge
Last century, as human activities caused changes in the atmosphere, the climate started warming at an alarming rate. All the climate models in the world cannot tell us for sure how these changes will affect the climate in the next decades. One reason for this is that models are all based on guesswor...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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NERC
2004
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15128/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15128/1/spr04-arcticchallenge.pdf http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth/2004/spring/spr04-arcticchallenge.pdf |
| Summary: | Last century, as human activities caused changes in the atmosphere, the climate started warming at an alarming rate. All the climate models in the world cannot tell us for sure how these changes will affect the climate in the next decades. One reason for this is that models are all based on guesswork about what happened in the Arctic in the past. To find out the truth, we need to drill cores from the Arctic Ocean floor, something that no one has ever succeeded in doing before. |
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