Recent Warming of Antarctica "Unusual But Not Unprecedented"

First time accepted submitter tomhath writes with a link to the abstract (full article paywalled) in Nature of an "Ice core study that concludes that climate change and associated melting of ice in Antarctica is more the norm than the exception, including rapid warming cycles as we appear to be in today. Study concludes: 'Although warming of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula began around 600 years ago, the high rate of warming over the past century is unusual (but not unprecedented) in the context of natural climate variability over the past two millennia. The connection shown here between past temperature and ice-shelf stability suggests that warming for several centuries rendered ice shelves on the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula vulnerable to collapse.'"

Comments

If we stick our collective heads in the sand...

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

If we stick our collective heads in the sand for long enough...

they will burn off.

Re:Oh phew

[i kan reed]

Look, I don't think you understand how science works.

Thousands of studies with use long-term empirical evidence to examine a main hypothesis and end up supporting it from numerous different directions: anecdotal, and easily dismissed.

One study that makes an assertion that SOUNDS LIKE it contradicts what people believe is a secondary hypothesis: complete and valid scientific invalidation.

It's not like it's already a well-acknowledged fact that antarctic warming appears to be slower than the rest of the world already or anything.