Climate change at the poles IS man-made
In the UK The Independent is reporting Climate change at the poles IS man-made
Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
It is the first time scientists have been able to prove the link between the temperature changes in both polar regions are down to human activity and it also undermines climate sceptics who believe the warming trend seen in the Arctic in recent decades is part of the climate’s natural variability.
The findings contradict the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said that Antarctica was the only continent where the human impact on the climate had not been observed.
The report is called The Arctic and Antarctic: Two Faces of Climate Change. – DS
November 9th, 2008 at 6:08 AM
Can you help me find any authoritative recent work which explains the causal link between rising SST and shrinking arctic ice?
I tried to download your link to this report, but got an error saying the file was not named properly. Any other link please?
November 9th, 2008 at 11:44 AM
The link I gave in the article, http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008EO190001.shtml links to the abstract for the paper, “The Arctic and Antarctic: Two Faces of Climate Change”. I just tried it again and it works. You need to contact the American Geophysical Union via the contact details on their website to get this paper.