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   Arctic Ocean is warming by a degree every decade in highest rise since   
   the last Ice Age, 40-year study shows   
      
   Temperatures in the Arctic Ocean between Canada, Russia and Europe are   
   warming faster than predicted   
      
   Helena Horton   
   27 August 2020 12:54pm   
      
   The Arctic Ocean is warming by a degree each decade in the highest   
   ri[s]e since the last Ice Age, a newly-published 40-year study has shown.   
      
   Scientists say this rapid heating is a threat to the Arctic ice, and   
   temperatures have risen far more sharply than their models predicted.   
      
   New research by the University of Copenhagen, published in Nature   
   Climate Change, compares current temperature changes in the Arctic   
   with climate fluctuations that we know from Greenland during the ice   
   age between 120,000-11,000 years ago.   
      
   Over 40 years, the average temperature of the Arctic Ocean in most   
   places increased by a degree per decade, and over the Barents Sea and   
   around Norway's Svalbard archipelago temperatures have increased by   
   1.5 degrees per decade throughout the period.   
      
   They found that these temperature rises are so extreme that similar   
   rapid changes were only seen during the last Ice Age.   
      
   Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, a professor at University of Copenhagen   
   and one of the study's researchers explained: "The abrupt rise in   
   temperature now being experienced in the Arctic has only been observed   
   during the last ice age. During that time, analyses of ice cores   
   revealed that temperatures over the Greenland Ice Sheet increased   
   several times, between 10 to 12 degrees, over a 40 to 100-year period."   
      
   Until now, climate models predicted that Arctic temperatures would   
   increase slowly and in a stable manner. However, the researchers'   
   analysis demonstrates that these changes are moving along at a much   
   faster pace than expected.   
      
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