Climate News Network: Good news for Arctic mosses, if not for any other Arctic creatures: little tundra plants that have been buried under the Canadian ice can feel the sunlight for the first time in at least 44,000 years.
The implication is that the Arctic is now, and has been for the last 100 years, warmer than at any time in the last 44,000 years and perhaps for the last 120,000 years.
Researchers have found that the Arctic is warmer now than it was in the early Holocene--the end of the last Ice Age--when the...