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Discuss “ACIA Report predicts future of the Arctic”

The world?s top environmental scientists gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland, last week for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic. The official ACIA report was publicly released on the symposium?s opening day, offering a series of grim predictions for the future of the Arctic. Chapters of the report covered the expected fate of the region?s climate, indigenous people, and wildlife over the next hundred years.

Since 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced three Assessment Reports on global effects that have served a solid background for the ACIA. The ACIA was created by the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) as...

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