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Arctic Climate History

Some small Arctic char for breakfast

The Arctic Environment: The sequence of climatic and cultural events in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, redrawn after Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic, by Moreau Maxwell, Figure 2.18. Changes in oxygen isotopes in ice caps tell us about changes in climate and reveal that the Arctic has warmed and cooled numerous times during the period of human occupation there.