Mark Serreze
Mark Serreze
Mark Clifford Serrezeis an American geographer and the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a project of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He officially became the NSIDC's director in August 2009. Serreze is primarily known for his expertise in the Arctic sea ice decline that has occurred over the last few decades due to global warming, a topic about which he has expressed serious concern...
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What you're starting to see is the greenhouse effect starting to emerge.
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The sea ice was a record minimum in the satellite era since 1979 and probably in the last century. Compared to where it should have been, you've lost an area roughly twice the size of Texas.
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September 2005 will set a new record minimum in the amount of Arctic sea ice cover.
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We've put a hit on the system and we are in the midst of a grand global experiment. We will have to live with the outcome.
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We keep looking for the ice to recover, but it isn't. Unless conditions turn unusually cold this spring and summer, we may be looking at sea ice losses in 2006 that will rival what we saw in 2005.
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It's increasingly difficult to argue against the notion that at least part of what we are seeing in the Arctic, in terms of sea ice, in terms of warming temperatures ... is due to the greenhouse effect.
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Something has fundamentally changed here, and the best answer is warming.
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The changes we've seen in the Arctic over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable.