The IPCC report on Climate Change 2007 doesn’t focus specifically on a region as small as Alaska. But climate change is expected to hit the Arctic harder than other places on the globe, the scientists said.
- Stories about the report:
- Anchorage Daily News
- New York Times
- Los Angeles Times
- Courier-Journal
- Miami Herald
- Sydney Herald
- Japan Times
“In all cases, you have the most warming in the high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and less warming at low latitudes,” said Susan Solomon, co-chair of the group that wrote the report and presented it early Friday morning in Paris. “So in a world 6 degrees Celsius (about 10 degrees F) warmer on average, it would be considerably warmer than that in the Arctic.”