West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought

New submitter dgrobinson writes "NY Times reports that West Antarctica has warmed more over the last half century than was first thought. A paper released Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience (abstract) found that the temperature at a research station in the middle of West Antarctica has warmed by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1958. That is roughly twice as much as scientists previously thought and three times the overall rate of global warming, making central West Antarctica one of the fastest-warming regions on earth."

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[Anonymous Coward]

you know what?

no one with half a brain cell cares whether or not the cause of warming over time is due to burning of fossil
fuels or some yet undiscovered natural process.

the only important question is whether or not there is anything we as a people could conceivably do to mitigate
the environmental changes which over the long term are going to be kind of a big deal. if you insist on distilling
reality down to a dollar count, a big deal in terms of costs.

and it turns out that under the best understanding of the way that the light form the sun interacts with the
mass of the planet, and the incoming light and outgoing heat react with the atmosphere, that there is...if we just
tried to deal with it.

so in summary shut the fuck up and deal with consensus reality for once