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Nature Geoscience 1, 728–729 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo346

Climate science: Global warming at the poles

Andrew Monaghan & David Bromwich

In the past decade, new observational platforms and improved modelling of the polar climate systems have led to a quantification of recent Arctic and Antarctic climate changes and to a tentative suggestion of causality. A mounting body of literature indicates that the changes in Arctic and Antarctic climate are consistent with the human-induced warming that is occurring globally.