Pepijn Bakker and colleagues
combine observational records of iceberg - rafted debris with climate models to show that the climate fluctuations seen during the Holocene may have been driven by small variations in the discharge of freshwater from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, amplified through the climate system.
Evidence exists in
recorded local
observational accounts as well as in the peer - reviewed scientific literature of the cumulative effects of climate - related environmental change on Native communities in Alaska; these effects
combine with other socioeconomic stressors to strain rural Native communities (Ch.