The air above Antarctica is warming faster than air in other parts of the Earth's atmosphere, a new scientific study has revealed. An analysis by the British Antarctic Survey, which is published in this week's issue of the journal Science, found that world the average temperature above Antarctica has increased four to six times faster during the last decade than it has elsewhere in the world. Relying on weather balloon data from nine stations, the British scientists have established the first evidence of climate change across the entire continent of Antarctica. The research team said in their study that there is no direct explanation for the isolated warming, but they said the Antarctica case lends credence to the theory that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases trapping heat from the sun in the atmosphere.
