According to a new study, Arctic temperatures in the 1990s crept to their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years. The natural cycle of the North Pole would be in a cooling trend if not for emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The tides are rising!

An eye-opening report published in Science magazine found that thousands of years of incremental Arctic cooling, brought about by the natural changes in Earth’s orbit and relationship to the Sun, would continue today if not for human impact on our planet. According to NCAR scientist David Schneider, one of the reports co-authors,  “This result is particularly important because the Arctic, perhaps more than any other region on Earth, is facing dramatic impacts from climate change.”

As land mass increases in the Arctic, due to the naturally reflecting snow and ice declining in the melt, it grabs more sunlight, accelerating and exacerbating the problem.

Sea level changes, along with temperature increases will obviously impact coastal areas all over our planet.