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![]() March 30, 2006 RAPID TEMPERATURE INCREASES ABOVE THE ANTARCTICA new analysis of weather balloon observations from the last 30 years reveals that the Antarctic has the same ‘global warming’ signature as that seen across the whole Earth, but is three times larger than that observed globally. The results by scientists from British Antarctic Survey are reported this week in Science. Although the rapid surface warming in the Antarctic Peninsula region has been known for some time, this study has produced the first indications of broad-scale climate change across the whole Antarctic continent. Lead author Dr. John Turner of the British Antarctic Survey says, “The rapid surface warming of the Antarctic Peninsula and the enhanced
global warming signal over the whole continent shows the complexity of climate change. Greenhouses gases could be having a bigger impact in
Antarctica than across the rest of the world and we don’t understand why. So far we haven’t been able to determine the mechanisms behind
the warming.” ### Linda Capper This text derived from http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/ Recommend this Article to a Friend Back to: News |
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