Antarctica warms much faster than predicted, a “deeply worrying” sign for sea levels

Scientists analyzed 78 ice cores from Antarctica to recreate temperatures going back 1.000 years and found that continent-wide warming was outside what might be expected from natural oscillations.

In West Antarctica – a region considered particularly vulnerable to warming – with an ice sheet that could raise global sea levels by several meters if it collapsed, the study concluded that warming is twice as high as suggested by climate models.

The investigation, published in the magazine Nature Climate Change, found that Antarctica is warming at a rate of between 0,22ºC and 0,32ºC per decade, compared to the 0,18ºC per decade predicted by climate models.

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