Arctic warming could cost the global economy nearly $70 trillion dollars, says study

The burden will fall heavily on poor nations far from the Arctic.

By Yereth Rosen April 24, 2019
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Warming in the Arctic, it is well-understood, feeds on itself. Warming creates more melt and thaw, which creates more warming, a process known as Arctic amplification, which is causing the Arctic regions to warm at least twice as fast as the global rate.

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