Antarctic having a heat wave
The air over the Antarctic is warming even faster than other parts of the world, an analysis of 30 years of weather balloon data has indicated.
While surface warming has been reported in parts of the Antarctic, this is the first report of broad-scale climate change across the whole continent, the British Antarctic Survey said in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The weather balloon data show a warming of 0.5 degree to 0.7 degree Celsius a decade over the last 30 years. By contrast, the average worldwide temperature has risen by 0.1 degree a decade in that time, the paper said.
While surface warming has been reported in parts of the Antarctic, this is the first report of broad-scale climate change across the whole continent, the British Antarctic Survey said in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The weather balloon data show a warming of 0.5 degree to 0.7 degree Celsius a decade over the last 30 years. By contrast, the average worldwide temperature has risen by 0.1 degree a decade in that time, the paper said.
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