claim: Prof Adam Scaife, a climate modelling expert at the UK’s Met Office, said the evidence for a link to shrinking Arctic ice was now good : ‘The consensus points towards that being a real effect.’”
evidence: Ben Keene, the atlas's editor, commented : In the last two or three decades, global warming has reduced the size of glaciers throughout the Arctic and earlier this year, news sources confirmed what climate scientists already knew : water, not rock, lay beneath this ice bridge on the east coast of Greenland.