Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise, according to a scientific study. In West Antarctica, a region considered particularly vulnerable to warming with an ice sheet that could push up global sea levels by several metres if it collapsed, the study found warming at twice the rate suggested by climate models. Dr Mathieu Casado, of the Laboratoire des Science du Climat et de l'Environnement in France and lead author of the study, said they had found 'direct evidence' that Antarctica was also now undergoing polar amplification. Part of the warming in Antarctica is likely being masked by a change in a pattern of winds ' also thought to be linked to global heating and the loss of ozone over the continent ' that has tended to reduce temperatures. Dr Danielle Udy, a climate scientist and ice core expert at the University of...
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