Terry Chapin Warming Quotations

There's been a long-term interest in why it is that high latitude climate seems to be warming more rapidly than the rest of the world. Basically, I thought that maybe vegetation would be having a large influence, but the bottom line of that paper is that snowmelt swamps the vegetation.

Because of these feedbacks, there are lots of reasons to think that this warming will continue.

It's not to say this (rapid warming scenario) is something that will happen. But it's based on a plausible future.

The climate's warming more rapidly in summer than previously thought. The warming in Alaska is mostly due to an increase of the snow-free season. This is going to profoundly influence anything that is limited to the snow season.