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Antarctic Warming Trends

For a long time, it seemed that Antarctica was immune to global warming. But a new analysis of satellite and weather station data has shown that Antarctica has warmed on average since 1957.


Image courtesy Trent Schindler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 23, 2009
Data acquired 1957 - 2006

Source:
NOAA-15 POES > AVHRR