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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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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The changes we've seen in the Arctic over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable.
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Something has fundamentally changed here, and the best answer is warming.
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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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What you're starting to see is the greenhouse effect starting to emerge.