Thursday, December 5, 2013
Federal study warns of sudden climate change woes
A curious adult polar bear (Ursus maritimus) approaches the National Geographic Explorer in the Barents Sea off the eastern coast of Edgeya (Edge Island) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway July 21, 2009. The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food.
The panel said Tuesday that melting ice in the Arctic Ocean and mass species extinction are already here and worse than predicted.
WASHINGTON — A panel of scientists advising the federal government says the world needs to worry more about hard-to-predict sudden changes from global warming than it does about the bigger but more gradual impacts.
The National Academy of Sciences looked at warming problems that can occur in years instead of centuries. The panel said Tuesday that melting ice in the Arctic Ocean and mass species extinction are already here and worse than predicted. It says the melting ice could be more of a wild card than originally thought.
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By Seth Borenstein of Associated Press
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