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National parks are getting hotter twice as quickly as the rest of the US

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    Direct link to study (not paywalled): http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aade09/meta

    Direct link to study (not paywalled): http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aade09/meta

    Here, in the first spatial analysis of historical and projected temperature and precipitation across all 417 US national parks, we show that climate change exposes the national park area more than the US as a whole. This occurs because extensive parts of the national park area are in the Arctic, at high elevations, or in the arid southwestern US

    From 2000 to 2100, under the highest emissions scenario ... park temperatures would increase 3 °C–9 °C

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