2009Jan21: Data from satellites and weather stations indicate a warming of about 0.6C over the last 50 years in Antarctica, according to a study published in the journal Nature by scientists at the University of Washington-Seattle and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “We now see warming is taking place on all seven of the earth’s continents in accord with what models predict as a response to greenhouse gases,” said Eric J. Steig, a professor of space sciences at the University of Washington-Seattle and the lead author of a paper (New York Times).
Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/science/earth/22climate.html
Image Description: Sunset in Antarctic Sound, 1962Mar. Image ID: corp1418, NOAA Corps Collection. Photo by Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, NOAA Corps (ret.). http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/corp1418.htm Image Permission: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made during the course of an employee’s official duties.
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