The Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Warming Temperatures are causing ice melt
The effects of global warming in Antarctica include rising
temperatures and increasing snow melt. The continent-wide average surface
temperature trend of Antarctica is positive and significant at >0.05
°C/decade since 1957. The West Antarctic ice sheet has warmed by more than 0.1
°C/decade in the last 50 years, and is strongest in winter and spring. Although
this is partly offset by fall cooling in East Antarctica, this effect is
restricted to the 1980s and 1990s. Research published in 2009 found that overall
the continent had become warmer since the 1950s, a finding consistent with the
influence of man-made climate change. The region of strongest warming lies
along the Antarctic Peninsula (Wikipedia).
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Antarctic Peninsula summer melt season prolonged by global
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