Interesting story on the Antarctic Sun website...

No longer the exception
New study: Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to rest of the world
From University of Washington and NASA press releases
Posted January 23, 2009

Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder.

But new research shows that for the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world. In fact, the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning that on average the continent has gotten warmer, said Eric Steig, a University of Washington (UW) External Non-U.S. government site professor of Earth and space sciences and director of the Quaternary Research Center External Non-U.S. government site at the UW.

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