Remember when Barrow was "Ground Zero for Climate Change"? Never mind

University Of Alaska Forecasting The Latest Ice Breakup At Barrow On Record | Real Science

Bob Reiss on “Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, Ground Zero for Climate Change” | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine

I got on the phone and email and asked numerous experts in many fields, if there was one place on the planet that epitomized all the aspects of climate change going on in the Arctic, if there could be such a single place, what would they pick? I was surprised because everybody said Barrow.

2005:  Warming Up to a New Task - Los Angeles Times

Barrow, a onetime listening post during the Cold War, is now a crossroads for research on a warming planet. As scientists race to understand global warming, which they widely agree is due in part to human consumption of fossil fuels, the effects are most clearly discernible in the Earth's polar regions.

"Basically, in terms of climate change, we're getting it fastest and first," said Richard Glenn, 42, a geologist and Inupiat leader.