Antarctica Warming for Last 50 years, Says Scientists

Antarctica has been warming for at least the last 50 years, says new research by NASA research and the University of Washington research scientists. These new findings challenge the popular notion that the continent's icy climate has been largely immune to global warming. The new study combined findings from the continent's 42 weather stations with 25 years of satellite data. "What we found, in a nutshell, is that Antarctica is not cooling," said Eric Steig, one of the paper's authors and a geochemist at the University of Washington. "We see warming is taking place on all seven continents in accord with what we predict from greenhouse gases." This evidence is different from a 2007 IPCC report which said Antarctica was the only continent where it was unclear whether human activities are influencing the climate. Read more at New York Times