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Antarctic Peninsula Has Cooled, but Warming Will Win
2016-07-21 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the Antarctic Peninsula was one of the fastest-warming places on the planet, with serious repercussions for the local environment, including the spectacular disintegration of a millennia-old ice shelf, and global sea level rise. But a new study detailed Thursday in the journal Nature suggests temperatures on the peninsula have dropped slightly since the late 1990s. This relative cooling is partly driven by the recovery of the ozone hole, and is,...
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