Two coastal villages, Kivalina and Shishmaref, have suffered from erosion that Gunter Weller of the University of Alaska?Fairbanks attributes to three factors, all directly deriving from warming.

• 阿拉斯加大学费班克分校的魏勒表示，基瓦林纳与夕什马里夫两个海岸村庄已经受到侵蚀，原因有三，全都与暖化现象直接相关。