Warmer Antarctica Shows Climate Changing on Every Continent

Humanity's impact on climate has been detected on every continent except Antarctica, or so said the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in February 2007. No longer: scientists, comparing decades of records from 17 Antarctic weather stations with computer simulations of Earth's climate, found that human-induced global warming has been heating up the continent that is home to the South Pole, as well. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Global Warming, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Oct 31, 2008 - 9:07 AM PDT
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Dennis A. Abbott
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by Dennis A. Abbott - Nov. 2, 2008

Short and readable is good, but there's little that's new. Scientific American could support their data better, for the benefit of those who can recognize possible misinterpretation of statistics (while perhaps accepting the obviously distorted statistics of Exxon-Mobil funded propagandists).

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Roland F. Hirsch
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Nov. 2, 2008

This opinion piece has modest journalistic merit. The problem is that the authors compare over "the past few decades"; they do not note the falling temperatures over the past ten years. Thus this piece lacks scientific credibility; it leaves out the most recent period, during which warming should have continued rather than stopped. They also do not point out how the Antarctic ice has dramatically thickened in recent years.

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