EAS News Article
Ancient Arctic data points to future troubles
A joint study between several American and European universities, including Purdue's Matthew Huber, shows that the Arctic's ancient water cycles could be red flags for future global warming. Huber, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, compared data from the research expedition with complex climate-model simulations to study and predict the effects of greenhouse gases. "We now have a pretty good correlation between records of past warmth and higher carbon dioxide concentrations," Huber said. "What it tells you is that it's not too difficult to push the climate system to a warm state. If you work out the numbers, it's almost identical to what we are expected to do over the next few hundred years."
