Arctic Warming a Natural Process – Polar Bears Lived well in Warm Hypsithermal

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Channel: Friends of Science · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Dr. Ian Clark discusses his arctic research and the effects of cyclical natural warming that he has witnessed first hand.  He explains that there have been warmer periods in the past such as the Holocene Hypsithermal some 8,000 years ago when all the arctic ice melted, and polar bears survived very well – their numbers are growing today.

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