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Ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming fast

2013-01-02 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: THE ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming much faster than we thought, suggesting swathes of it could melt and send global sea levels soaring. Climatologists have struggled to work out whether Antarctica is warming, and how quickly, because it has few weather stations and the records from some are incomplete. David Bromwich of Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues filled in the gaps for one key station using statistics and data from a climate model. They conclude that temperatures...

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