Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Ice Cover

Résumé du livre

Report that linear trends in Arctic sea-ice extent from 1979-206 are negative in every month. Considers ice loss as combination of strong natural variability in coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere system and growing radiative forcing associated with rising concentrations of atmospheric greenahouse gases (latter supported by evidence of qualitative consistency between observed trends and those simulated by climate models over same period).