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Sep 6, 2021 - 25 min
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Why scientists got the fast pace of Arctic warming wrong
6 mins | Nov 3, 2022
The world has once again been caught off-guard. Multiple articles identifying dangerous underestimates about how fast Arctic ice is melting have been published since 2013, yet scientists continue to make the same mistakes. So from fears of hysteria to incorrect observations, Naomi Oreskes examines how they could have got it so wrong.
