• So, how is this warming linked to climate change? (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Previous work on the effects of climate change in the East Antarctic has generally assumed that warming first occurs in the ocean's surface layers. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The results suggest climate change is having a bigger impact on ice loss in Antarctica than was previously thought. (europeanscientist.com)
  • Yet even in the age of climate change, Antarctica is a land of mysteries. (eenews.net)
  • Antarctica, on the other hand, isn't always responding to global climate change in the most obvious ways. (eenews.net)
  • And two conclusions are clear: Climate change is already reshaping the Antarctic, and it will only transform faster as the planet continues to warm. (eenews.net)
  • One of the clearest fingerprints of climate change in Antarctica lies just west of the Endurance's watery grave. (eenews.net)
  • Plants in Antarctica are growing more quickly due to climate change, which could represent a potential tipping point for the region's changing ecosystem. (newscientist.com)
  • Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica - the East Antarctic Ice Sheet - has actually been getting colder. (sott.net)
  • Many of the issues that are settled within the scientific community, such as human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them-an ideological phenomenon categorized by academics and scientists as climate change denial. (wikipedia.org)
  • This page does not represent an official position of the Lyc e Classique de Diekirch or the Ministry of Education on climate change and global warming. (lcd.lu)
  • Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise, according to a scientific study. (melroy.org)
  • In the icy expanse of Antarctica, an unexpected and concerning sign of climate change has emerged-flowers, once a rare sight, are now blooming and spreading rapidly across the frozen continent, and it's not good news at all. (careerstepup.com)
  • The research , published today in Nature Climate Change shows how warming waters at the East Antarctic shelf are linked to a reorganisation of water masses that could potentially compromise the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet. (www.csiro.au)
  • This might seem contrary to warming trends forecast by climate scientists, but a new analysis released today in Science points out that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions may actually have contributed to the well-below average temperatures seen in parts of the U.S. (mongabay.com)
  • Wall Street Journal columnist Pete Du Pont claimed that carbon dioxide is "not a pollutant" and repeatedly cited a misleading, industry-funded study on climate change to prove that the "truth about 'global warming' is much less dire than Al Gore wants you to think. (mediamatters.org)
  • This corresponds with United Nations climate change models that show Greenland warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and partially explains the rapid deterioration of the Greenland ice sheet in recent years. (mediamatters.org)
  • to investigate the status and role of Antarctica in Neogene climate change. (carleton.edu)
  • This net warming is one of the primary contributors to climate change. (nih.gov)
  • The global temperature has been rising significantly since the mid-1900s, with 19 of the warmest years on record occurring since 20 00.3 T he year 2020 tied 2016 for the warmest year on recor d.3 H owever, the effects of climate change wil extend far beyond warmer temperatures. (nih.gov)
  • Nineteen of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 21 years, which is a strong sign of global warming and climate change. (nih.gov)
  • Mount Jackson, Antarctica, 3,184 metres, is located on the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula and would have lacked snow and ice during the PETM. (creation.com)
  • In the past 50 years the western Antarctic peninsula has warmed by 0.5 degrees Celsius each decade, fastest temperature rise world-wide. (expatica.com)
  • A grim fact of global warming is that the Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches toward South America, is one of the fastest-warming regions on the planet. (jstor.org)
  • For years it was believed that a relatively small area known as the Antarctic Peninsula was getting warmer, but that the rest of the continent - including West Antarctica, the ice sheet most susceptible to potential future collapse - was cooling. (sott.net)
  • Conversely, Adélie and chinstrap penguins are experiencing a 'reversal of fortunes' as they are now declining in the Antarctic Peninsula, the opposite of their response to post-LGM warming. (nature.com)
  • The largest declines in ice thickness were found in west Antarctica, More than a fifth of the ice sheet in this area has retreated on the sea floor at a faster rate than deglaciation above. (europeanscientist.com)
  • During the golden age of dinosaurs, West Antarctica was covered in lush forests and traversed by rivers. (greatlakesledger.com)
  • 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 professor of Earth and space sciences and director of the Quaternary Research Center at the UW. (sott.net)
  • West Antarctica is a very different place than East Antarctica, and there is a physical barrier, the Transantarctic Mountains, that separates the two," said Steig, lead author of a paper documenting the warming published in the Jan. 22 edition of Nature . (sott.net)
  • A notable example of this occurred in the Siple Coast region of West Antarctica over 170 years ago, where flow piracy from the Kamb Ice Stream led to its shutdown, and the largest ongoing signature of ice mass gain in Antarctica. (access-hive.org.au)
  • In West Antarctica, a region considered particularly vulnerable to warming with an ice sheet that could push up global sea levels by several metres if it collapsed, the study found warming at twice the rate suggested by climate models. (melroy.org)
  • In recent years however, scientists have observed these have gone ever closer to what would normally be a restricted habitat for them, off the coastline of West Antarctica. (zmescience.com)
  • Mean annual temperatures in the Arctic at the PETM were up to 25°C. 7 Swamp cypress trees and lemurs were discovered in the north-east Canadian islands, both indicative of much warmer temperatures and greater precipitation. (creation.com)
  • The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has measured air temperatures at the Mawson weather station in Antarctica since early 1954 - this is one of the longest continuous surface temperature records for that part of the world. (spectator.com.au)
  • Researchers found that between 2010 and 2016, warmer ocean temperatures caused Antarctica's underwater ice to shrink by 1,463 square kilometres, an area as large as Greater London. (europeanscientist.com)
  • The Norwegian archipelago's smaller fjords once froze over in winter, but warmer temperatures now keep the water flowing in some year-round. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Spongy snow hardens on them in warm temperatures, causing vibrations. (techknowmad.com)
  • Scientists analysed 78 Antarctic ice cores to recreate temperatures going back 1,000 years and found the warming across the continent was outside what could be expected from natural swings. (melroy.org)
  • These ice shelves' bases are exposed to Circumpolar Deep Water, the warmest water mass below the subsurface layer over the Southern Ocean. (atlas.jp)
  • Our observations from in front of the Vanderford Glacier suggest that this warm water, also known as Circumpolar Deep Water, is replacing the colder Dense Shelf Water," Dr Herraiz-Borreguero said. (www.csiro.au)
  • The East Antarctic ice sheet was once thought to be relatively stable and sheltered from warming oceans. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Warming oceans are causing Antarctica's ice sheet to melt from underneath, according to a new study. (europeanscientist.com)
  • We found unequivocal ocean warming at a rate of up to 2℃ to 3℃ since the earlier half of the 20th century. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • We found there has been an unequivocal ocean warming over the continental slope of up to 2 to 3ºC since the earlier half of the 20th century. (www.csiro.au)
  • Our findings underscore the urgency of limiting global warming to below 1.5℃, to avert the most catastrophic climate harms. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Limiting warming below 1.5 ºC is the best way to keep the Antarctic Ice Sheet stable, limit global mean sea level rise to around 0.5 m by 2100, and slow the pace at which sea level will rise. (www.csiro.au)
  • With global warming, both of the poles are warming quite quickly, and this warming is causing ice to melt in both regions. (thepiratescove.us)
  • If the ocean warms up, it can melt the underside of the shelf and cause it to thin or break off into the ocean. (thepiratescove.us)
  • Many studies have focused on active basal melt at ice shelves in the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Sea and the Totten Ice shelf, East Antarctica. (atlas.jp)
  • The hottest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.94 degrees Fahrenheit) was taken at a research base there on Feb. 6. (insurancejournal.com)
  • The temperature of those waters is also getting warmer. (elephantjournal.com)
  • That is exceptionally warm for a location near the South Pole, where the average annual temperature now is around minus 40 Fahrenheit (minus 40 Celsius). (infodecay.com)
  • As of 2022[update] the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the global yearly average temperature has been warming at rate of 0.18 °C (0.32 °F) per decade since 1981. (wikipedia.org)
  • Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of global warming includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. (wikipedia.org)
  • Logan Stark had an unusual reaction to his first skydive in Antarctica, where the temperature was minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take, at jump altitude, roughly 2 miles up. (coffeeordie.com)
  • But Du Pont's numerous assertions -- on the danger posed by carbon dioxide, the temperature record in Greenland, the effect of the sun on global warming, and the threat of rising sea levels -- all misrepresent the underlying scientific research. (mediamatters.org)
  • Chylek then analyzed the temperature record in the Danmarkshavn region of Greenland -- an area on the northeastern coast apparently unaffected by the NAO -- and found that the warming rate there was 2.2 times faster than the global average. (mediamatters.org)
  • This was studied by measuring the lethal temperature for 50% of tissue (LT50), ice nucleation temperature (INT), and freezing point (FP) on Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis plants. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Steig paper has been found to have some data errors and is raising other concerns about the agenda of the global warming advocates behind it. (sott.net)
  • Shut your ears off from the deafening cries and shouts of the global warming advocates, and sharpen your mind. (lcd.lu)
  • Part of our research focused on the Vanderford Glacier in East Antarctica. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • We investigate the potential of ice flow piracy from Totten Glacier, the dominant outlet glacier of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, to the neighbouring Vanderford Glacier. (access-hive.org.au)
  • Washington (dpa) - Scientists Tuesday are blaming global warming for the collapse of a giant slab off Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf. (expatica.com)
  • Enticed by warming waters, king crabs might soon make a run for Antarctica's continental shelf where they haven't been seen for at least 10 million years. (zmescience.com)
  • Nicoletta Cannone at the University of Insubria, Italy, and her colleagues measured the growth of the Antarctic's only two native flowering plants, Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis , at a number of sites on Signy Island from 2009 to 2019. (newscientist.com)
  • Recent human activity has intensified global warming, which could result in a mass melting of Antarctica, said Zoe Thomas, a research fellow at the University of New South Wales who was part of an international team of scientists that recently published a paper on Antarctic ice melting. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Scientists have already observed increased plant growth due to climate warming in the northern hemisphere , but this is the first recorded change in the southern Antarctic. (newscientist.com)
  • Antonello writes that it has almost exclusively been explorers and scientists who have built up the way the rest of us imagine Antarctica. (jstor.org)
  • In many areas of environmental concern, scientists dominate the language, meanings, and narratives of discussion," he writes, and this is especially so with Antarctica, where scientists have a near monopoly on physical presence. (jstor.org)
  • Scientists have answered these questions decisively in favor of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Climate scientists have long expected that polar regions would warm faster than the rest of the planet - a phenomenon known as polar amplification - and this has been seen in the Arctic. (melroy.org)
  • ALLEN: Christian's coalition, along with scientists and some governments, want the group of nations that oversees Antarctica to take a firmer hand in regulating tourism there. (npr.org)
  • This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular through a study of the changing. (andrewisles.com)
  • Warmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research which reveals a potential new driver of global sea-level rise. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The resulting warmer waters and sea-level rise may damage marine life and threaten human coastal settlements. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The movement of warm waters towards East Antarctica is expected to worsen throughout the 21st century, further threatening the ice sheet's stability. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The waters west of Antarctica have warmed by a staggering 1.5 degrees Celsius or double the global average. (zmescience.com)
  • As this shift is predicted to persist into the 21st century, the movement of warm waters towards East Antarctica may continue to intensify, threatening the ice sheet's future stability," he said. (www.csiro.au)
  • There is no evidence for a Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age or twentieth century warming in our lake sediment record suggesting that studies that have imposed Northern Hemisphere climate anomalies onto Southern Hemisphere palaeoclimate records should be treated with caution. (cambridge.org)
  • A sediment core was extracted with the help of a high-power drill from the Amundsen Sea, located near the west coast of Antarctica. (greatlakesledger.com)
  • In Part 2 students become familiar with the geography and geologic units of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica and review or build knowledge of southern hemisphere seasons, sea-ice, ice-shelves, and the challenges associated with obtaining a sediment core from the floor of McMurdo Sound. (carleton.edu)
  • In Part 3 students review the existing data from sediment cores in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica and use the knowledge gained in Parts 1 and 2 to identify a target stratigraphic interval and select two drill sites. (carleton.edu)
  • Some parts of the continent are rapidly warming, while others seem to be relatively stable. (eenews.net)
  • It initially arrived in December 2021 at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station, the first zero-emissions outpost on the continent. (techknowmad.com)
  • Major satellite image mosaics of the entire continent where made in 1997, 2005, and 2008 (the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica is interactive). (jstor.org)
  • The fate of Antarctica hangs in the balance, and it's a race against time to save this fragile icy continent. (careerstepup.com)
  • In this study we investigated changes in the ocean that interacts with the Aurora Subglacial Basin in the Indian Ocean sector of East Antarctica. (www.csiro.au)
  • There, we observed the warm water replacing the colder dense shelf water. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • NSIDC scientist Ted Scambos said this ice shelf has been in place for at least a few hundred years, but warm air and exposure to ocean waves are causing the break-up. (expatica.com)
  • The results indicate that the warming of the continental shelf is associated with a multi-decadal, summer-focused poleward shift of the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean. (www.csiro.au)
  • Global warming was leading to an "irreversible" mass melting of the Antarctic ice and purging carbon from the atmosphere was the only solution to slow the process, an Australian climate scientist told Reuters on Wednesday. (insurancejournal.com)
  • For more than 100 years, the wreck of the lost ship Endurance has sat untouched at the bottom of the icy Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. (eenews.net)
  • If we extrapolate what we observed on Signy Island to other sites in Antarctica, a similar process can also occur," says Cannone. (newscientist.com)
  • There's no record of any human stepping foot on Antarctica before the beginning of the twentieth century. (jstor.org)
  • Public disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), how the climate will change at local and regional scales, and what the consequences of global warming will be. (wikipedia.org)
  • The vast majority of forcing agents have a warming effect, especially greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. (nih.gov)
  • The researchers then compared their observations with surveys from the previous 50 years and found that not only had the sites become more densely populated by the plants, but they had grown faster each year as the climate warmed. (newscientist.com)
  • A team of international researchers has conducted an in-depth study which involved the collection and analysis of a 90 million years old soil sample, and the result has been quite surprising, as Antarctica used to be a warm and swampy rainforest. (greatlakesledger.com)
  • However, summer lasts until March in Antarctica, and the researchers discovered the Venturi Antarctica vehicle needs extra cooling devices to operate as intended in the -10°C "hot. (techknowmad.com)
  • Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The combined land-ocean warming is very real," he said, adding that a compilation of more than 1.6 billion daily observations has helped researchers refine climate models with significantly greater spatial resolution than a decade ago. (nih.gov)
  • Its second full year of operation has begun for the Venturi Antarctica. (techknowmad.com)
  • This makes 2014, to date, the sixth warmest year on record going back to 1880 when comparing the first four months. (mongabay.com)
  • The rate of current warming is highly unusual but not unprecedented for the Holocene period 9 and the Pleistocene has been characterized by large-scale oscillations in global climate such as the 100,000 year cycles of ice ages 10 . (nature.com)
  • Last year, the warmest on record, Antarctica had the most ice coverage it's had in 30 years. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • This is why areas near the Earth's equator are warm year- round, while areas at higher latitudes generally experience seasons of cool weather. (nih.gov)
  • The record for distance covered in a single year belongs to the arctic tern ( Sterna paradisaea ), which travels ≈50,000 km between Antarctica and northern Scandinavia. (cdc.gov)
  • We are in the process of expanding our investigative mission to include the investigation of criminal violations that occur in Antarctica," Lisa Vonder Haar, the chief of staff for the OIG, wrote in an email to the AP confirming the visit. (wric.com)
  • The warming trend has tripled since the 1990s, reaching a rate of 0.3℃ to 0.9℃ each decade. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This period, known as the Holocene , has also been characterised by a relatively stable and warm climate. (hqcasanova.com)
  • Last week, the Guardian hosted a NASA conference, announcing the retreat of ice in the Amundsen sector of Antarctica was unstoppable, and would contribute to global sea level rising by a meter. (elephantjournal.com)
  • Some experts worry that severe, sustained warming could eventually drive unstoppable and irreversible changes on the Antarctic ice sheet, causing massive glaciers to collapse and generating catastrophic increases in global sea levels. (eenews.net)
  • To learn how a vulnerable ecosystem changes in this fastest-warming place on Earth, Unterthiner went in search of Arctic wildlife. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The ice dynamic response to climate warming is the largest source of uncertainty in projections of ice mass loss from key vulnerable catchments in Antarctica. (access-hive.org.au)
  • However, the data strongly indicate that anthropological warming is greatly exaggerated and that most of the slight warming the earth has experienced since 1880 is caused by natural processes, leaving man's contribution small. (creation.com)
  • Maybe: in less than 24 hours the world's two largest emitters of carbon dioxide announced plans to finally rein-in the gas most responsible for global warming. (mongabay.com)
  • Using molecular techniques, we assess the demographic history and population structure of Pygoscelis penguins in the Scotia Arc related to climate warming after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). (nature.com)
  • All three pygoscelid penguins responded positively to post-LGM warming by expanding from glacial refugia, with those breeding at higher latitudes expanding most. (nature.com)
  • Comparing historical responses with the literature on current trends, we see Southern gentoo penguins are responding to current warming as they did during post-LGM warming, expanding their range southwards. (nature.com)
  • Adélie ( Pygoscelis adéliae ), chinstrap ( P. antarctica ) and gentoo ( P. papua ) penguins are sympatric in this region, with overlapping breeding colonies in some areas and all three species show high levels of breeding site fidelity 16 . (nature.com)
  • We're in Antarctica, and we're watching penguins. (npr.org)
  • The ferocious summer: Palmer's penguins and the warming of Antarctica. (andrewisles.com)
  • Students investigate geographic, glacial, and geologic data from Antarctica and apply geologic reasoning to propose the best location to drill cores to recover a target stratigraphic interval of paleoclimatic significance. (carleton.edu)
  • {Notorious warmists, NASA} Volcano ‘as powerful as Yellowstone’ MELTS ice beneath Antarctica … I could keep throwing these links out, but, Warmists wouldn’t care. (thepiratescove.us)
  • Since the 1960s, these winds have been moving south towards Antarctica during years when the Southern Annular Mode, a climate driver, is in a positive phase. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This dates from the planet's warmest period of the past 140 million years, with sea levels about 560 feet (170 meters) higher than today. (infodecay.com)
  • The icy region developed around 34 million years ago, long preceding humanity, as the warm Eocene epoch turned into the cold Oligocene. (jstor.org)
  • 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. (sott.net)
  • The country says it doesn't expect its emissions to peak until 2030, but setting a cap in the next two years will allow the international community to gauge the level of China's commitment on combatting global warming. (mongabay.com)
  • Cruises to Antarctica, already popular, have grown dramatically in recent years. (npr.org)
  • The first is that if the pre-Flood world was uniformly warm, this would have allowed warm-climate animals and plants to live at high latitude. (creation.com)
  • The study showed the world could lose most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which rests on the seabed and is fringed by floating ice, in a warmer world. (insurancejournal.com)
  • We all know intuitively that in a warmer world there will be less ice. (thepiratescove.us)
  • But this time, much of that interest is focused on how the region is changing as the world warms. (eenews.net)
  • Its counterpart, the Arctic, is currently warming nearly three times as fast as the rest of the world. (eenews.net)
  • After asserting that "the world is not warming as much as environmentalists think it is," Du Pont cited the Legates report to claim that "[w]hat warming there is turns out to be caused by solar radiation rather than human pollution. (mediamatters.org)
  • 10 Moreover, says Jonathan Patz, a professor of environmental studies and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "So many infectious diseases are sensitive to climate that if the majority of the climatologists around the world are telling us that climate is changing and will continue to change under the scenario of global warming, then disease incidence will change. (nih.gov)
  • Antarctica sea ice is at a "mind-blowing" record low winter area of 17 million square kilometres, reports a three-person BBC "News Climate & Science and Data Journalism Team", as lower levels than those recorded in the recent past provide the cue for yet more media climate hysteria. (uncensored.co.nz)
  • Large ozone holes form over Antarctica because the stratosphere over the polar region is very cold in winter. (lu.se)
  • Since the late 1960s, stability and instability, with ideas of collapse and disintegration, grew and morphed with the larger question of anthropogenic global warming," writes Antonello. (jstor.org)
  • With such a warm climate at mid and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, the likely consequence is too much heat in the low latitudes. (creation.com)
  • A warm Arctic Ocean would warm the surrounding high latitudes, but Antarctica should have been relatively cool because of its high latitude. (creation.com)
  • Second, warm-climate flora and fauna could have been transported from low and middle latitudes to high latitudes by currents or by rafting on log mats. (creation.com)
  • An fantastic article and a worthy theory that ties together many loose ends on the Mars-Antarctica connection. (uncensored.co.nz)
  • A unique drilling project in the western Ross Sea has revealed that Antarctica had a much more eventful climate history than previously assumed. (org.in)
  • Interpret simple geologic maps and cross sections, and describe the geology, glaciology, and geography of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. (carleton.edu)
  • Our findings - that deeper water is warming first - suggests a need to rethink potential impacts on marine life. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • What we're seeing in Antarctica now is it's changing," said Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (eenews.net)
  • Most cases of C. gattii have been reported in the warmer climates of Australia, Asia, Africa, and Southern California. (nih.gov)
  • The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action can or should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. (wikipedia.org)
  • Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, without the weight of today's ice sheets applying isostatic downward pressure, Antarctica would presumably have been at higher altitude before glaciation, thereby enhancing the effects of cooling. (creation.com)
  • Beginning in the 1970s, just as glaciologists seemed to be getting a handle on the ice with more refined theories and new technologies," writes environmental historian Alessandro Antonello , "the complex effects of global warming began to complicate further scientific understands of the ice sheet. (jstor.org)
  • Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Taking al of the warming and cooling effects into account produces a significant net warming effect. (nih.gov)
  • Aerosol particles can both spread and absorb sunlight, which can have cooling or warming effects on the climate. (lu.se)
  • 05/27/2014) Globally, this April was a scorcher, tying with 2010 for the warmest April on record, according to new data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week. (mongabay.com)
  • There's also a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, so the UV rays down there are just gnarly," Denman said. (coffeeordie.com)
  • A new report concludes that Antarctica was 'near-tropical', 15 based on identification of near-tropical paleoflora including palms similar to those found in Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia. (creation.com)
  • Pollen and spores from several plants were also identified, proving that flowering plants could be found in Antarctica. (greatlakesledger.com)
  • High-latitude warm-climate vegetation also has consequences for the location of the Flood/post-Flood boundary. (creation.com)
  • So there is some vegetation in Antarctica that did not recover, so we know that humans can have an impact there. (npr.org)