Human footprint in Antarctic warming
Thursday, den 30. October 2008This new research comes to no surprise - but for those who are still skeptical it provides another evidence that we humans are changing our global climate to an extent that is not advisable. MW
The rise in Arctic and Antarctic temperatures in recent decades can be attributed directly to human activities, according to a new study online in Nature Geoscience. Patterns of temperature change in Antarctica are much less clear than the Arctic warming signal; however, the authors show that temperature is rising in those regions of Antarctica where data is available and that this warming is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. (more…)




