OSLO - "Global warming is hitting the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet in what may be a portent of wider, catastrophic changes....
There is dramatic climate change happening in the Arctic right now ... about 2-3 times the pace of the whole globe....
If you want to know what the rest of the planet is going to see in the next generation,...
everything from disastrous floods or droughts to a rise in global sea levels that could swamp low-lying Pacific islands...
Russia might get easier access to oil and gas...
hunters are falling more frequently...
melting is also destabilizing buildings....
in parts of Scandinavia, Birch trees are taking over traditional reindeer lichen pastures....
elk and red deer moving north"
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doomed i tell you.