Space/Science — HabitableZone

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Evidence, ER.

They're doing a bit of dancing, now.

Look at the recent big news item about Antarctica, accompanied by the following well-published map of the temperature rise over the past fifty years:

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn16460/dn16460-1_500.jpg


Hah! See? Eastern Antarctica IS getting warmer!

Map look kind of familiar? It should.

Here's the map of what temperature has done over the past 20 years (both maps originate with NASA):

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/Antarctic_temps_AVH1982-2004%20source%20NASA.jpg


In short, all they really seem to have done (using sparse observations and a lot of math on the data) was kick the timeline back to 50 years. If they had kicked it back to 100 years, I suspect it would have showed even more warming.

Caveat: I haven't paid Nature to read the whole thing yet, but note that some of the supplemental material and diagrams seem to be available for free.

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