Impacts of a Warming Climate - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

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by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 2005, 140 pages, paper

ISBN 0521617782

The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Impacts of a Warming Arctic is a plain language synthesis of the key findings of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), designed to be accessible to policymakers and the broader public. The ACIA is a comprehensively researched, fully referenced, and independently reviewed evaluation of arctic climate change. It has involved an international effort by hundreds of scientists. This report provides vital information to society as it contemplates its responses to one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is illustrated in full-color throughout.

ontributorsRobert Corell, Pal Prestrud, Gunter Weller, Patricia A. Anderson, Snorri Baldursson, Elizabeth Bush, Terry V. Callaghan, Paul Grabhorn, Susan Joy Hassol, Gordon McBean, Michael MacCracken, Lars-Otto Reiersen, Jan Idar Solbakken, Jim Berner, Terry V. Callaghan, Shari Fox, Christopher Furgal, Alf Hakon Hoel, Henry Huntington, Arne Instanes, Glenn P. Juday, Erland Kellen, Vladimir M. Kattsov, David R. Klein, Harald Loeng, Marybeth Long Martello, Gordon McBean, James J. McCarthy, Mark Nuttall, Terry D. Prowse, James D. Reist, Amy Stevermer, Aapo Tanskanen, Michael B. Usher, Hjalmar Vilhjįlmsson, John E. Walsh, Betsy Weatherhead, Gunter Weller, Fred J. WronaContents

Key findings; 1. The arctic and global climate change; 2. Past, present and future Arctic climate; 3. Climate change effects on the Arctic physical system; 4. Climate change impacts on ecosystems and human activities; 5. Conclusions, Appendices.