Antarctica Warms; Scientists Say We’re To Blame


	Antarctica Warms; Scientists Say We’re To Blame

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10-31-2008 2:31 PM

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10-31-2008 10:39 PM

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Oops...that's gotta be embarrassing to the anti-warming crowd

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d7d02d0-1670-48fc-806b-d3e68417147a/BAC14393-9A89-4358-9812-5DC5BEC837A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Antarctica warms; scientists say we’re to blame" rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/">Antarctica warms; scientists say we’re to blame</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.reuters.com/img/67871FCF-A2DD-46A4-92B8-45D95787885A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><P>Antarctica had until now been the only continent where a human fingerprint of warming had not been detected by scientists — that meant some sceptics said it might not be global at all.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><P>Ice around the frozen continent has tended to expand in recent years — some climate experts have <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSLC65229120080912">theories</A> to explain that that could be a side-effect of warming linked to shifting ocean currents or changes in snow and rainfall.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><P>But more ice obviously doesn’t sound a convincing argument for global warming when a runaway melt of the summer sea ice in the Arctic — to a record low in September 2007 – is often held up as Exhibit A in the evidence for climate change.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/10/31/antarctica-warms-scientists-say-were-to-blame/"><P>The<A href="http://www.ipcc.ch/"> U.N. 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