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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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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