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CLIMATE CHANGE
While the average temperature change taking place as the Earth
recovers from the Little Ice Age is so slight that it is diffcult to discern, its environmental effects are measurable. Glacier shortening and the 7 inches per century rise in sea level are examples. There are additional climate changes that are correlated with this rise in temperature and may be caused by it.
Greenland, for example, is beginning to turn green again, as it was 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Climate Optimum (11). Arctic sea ice is decreasing somewhat (75), but Antarctic ice is not decreasing and may be in creasing, due to increased snow (76-79). In the United States, rainfall is in creasing at about 1.8 inches per century, and the number of severe tornados is de creasing, as shown in Figures 7 and 8. If world temperatures continue to rise at the current rate, they will reach those of the Medieval Climate Optimum about 2 centuries from now. Historical reports of that period record the growing of warm weather crops in local i ties too cold for that purpose to day, so it is to be expected that the area of more temperate climate will expand as it did then. This is al ready be ing observed, as studies at higher altitudes have reported in creases in amount and diversity of plant and animal life by more than 50%.
Uthevingen har jeg gjort. Jeg visst at det var varmt her til lands i vikingtiden, men at det var så stor forskjell var jeg ikke klar over.
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