November 23, 2004

11/23 - Maintaining the Baseline: Indigenous people's observations mesh with scientific data in the Arctic

"We found that scientific observations and those of indigenous people over many generations are meshing," Hassol said from her Denver office. "Sea ice is retreating, glaciers are reducing in size, permafrost is thawing, all [these indicators] provide strong evidence that it has been warming rapidly in the Arctic in recent decades."

Posted by Jon Rusho at November 23, 2004 10:57 AM
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