Ice shelf in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica. Image: Pierre Dutrieux, January 2018 via Climate News Network
A team of British and American scientists has found what it says is unequivocal evidence that humans are responsible for significant Antarctic ice melt.
They say their study provides the first evidence of a direct link between global warming from human activities and the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
The discovery is fundamentally important to international efforts to limit climate change, as a small number of scientists still argue that global warming results from natural rather than human causes. That argument should from now on be harder to sustain.
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