Read here. Map source here. The past decade has been filled with climate warming alarmist predictions that CO2-induced warming is running amok, globally causing significant climate change. The most significant change that global warming was predicted to cause would have happened in the polar regions. As is often the case, the alarmist polar predictions are frequently incorrect.
Recently, scientists conducted research on the same plot of Arctic land where research was done back in the 1930's. What did they find? Climate change from "global warming" was non-existent.
"Parmesan (2006) wrote that "nearly every Arctic ecosystem shows marked shifts due to climate change," and as a result, the authors decided to see if such was the case at a study site in the High Arctic located at 78°38'N, 16°45'E, near Brucebyen at the Adolfbukta Bay in central Spitsbergen (Svalbard), where the vegetation had been carefully surveyed, identified and mapped in the 1930s and the results published by Acock (1940).....In the summer of 2008, Prach et al. repeated the vegetation mapping and identification of species "on the same strip of land 2,042 x 521 meters in size, as surveyed by Acock in 1936-1937 and using the same methods.".....The four researchers, all from the Czech Republic, report that their work "did not reveal any changes in vegetation, since a previous study in 1936-1937, that could be attributed to climate change.".....maybe it just hasn't warmed as much in this High Arctic land as the world's climate alarmists would have us believe, which is also suggested by Prach et al."