Climate models are probably underestimating how fast the Arctic is warming, a new study suggests
“This is a warning that we have entered what must be characterized as an abrupt change in the climate.”
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change says that existing climate models underestimate how rapidly the Arctic is currently warming. The new research concludes that today’s rate of temperature increase — about 1 degree Celsius per decade — is similar to the rate of warming that occurred during periods of abrupt warming during the last ice age, when temperatures could increase as much as 10-15 degrees during a few decades.
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