The south pole is being one of the places on the planet that most resents the effects of climate change, and three times faster than the rest of the world. This is revealed by an investigation published in the newspaper “The Guardian”, which concludes that there have been “dramatic and abrupt changes” in the interior of Antarctica in the last 30 years, a region that scientists believed was not very exposed to the effects of global warming.
But, contrary to what the scientific community took for granted, the coldest piece of land on the planet is, after all, the one that is suffering from “an unprecedented warming wave”, at a rate three times faster than others. parts of the globe, in a trend that threatens to continue to rise in the coming years, according to the study warns.
“The south pole is not immune to warming,” says Kyle Clem, a climate scientist at Victoria University of Wellington, in the article published in “The Guardian”, where he also recounts his trip to Antarctica, highlighting “the sound of melting icebergs “.
At the same time that the south pole, the ocean in the western Pacific area also began to heat up rapidly, the study also reveals – advancing that about 20% of temperature variations at the south pole each year are related to sea temperatures in the Tropical Pacific, and that a series of warmer years at the south pole in the past twenty years occurred when the temperature of this ocean was unusually hot. It was already known from previous studies that the strong regional temperature variations in this area are partly due to the shape of Australia.
“The temperature variation at the south pole is so extreme that it is able to mask the effects caused by humans. The interior of Antarctica is one of the few places on earth where the warming generated by human actions cannot be precisely determined, which means that it is a challenge to say if the warming will continue, and for how long “, concludes the scientist.
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