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: The American Meteorological Society ( AMS ) statement adopted by their council in 2012 concluded : There is unequivocal evidence that Earth's lower atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; sea level is rising; and snow cover, mountain glaciers, and Arctic sea ice are shrinking.