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The heat is on in Antarctica

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The Antarctic Peninsula has long been thought to be the only part of Antarctica that has warmed in recent decades. Careful detective work confirms that West Antarctica is also warming rapidly.

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Figure 1: West Antarctic warming.

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  1. Eric J. Steig is at the Quaternary Research Center and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA,

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  2. Anais J. Orsi is at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0244, La Jolla, California 92093, USA,

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Steig, E., Orsi, A. The heat is on in Antarctica. Nature Geosci 6, 87–88 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1717

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