Why Are There No Signs of Inland Antarctica warming up?
greenhouse effect. It contributes towards maintaining a mean surface temperature of +15 degrees Celsius. In the absence of this process, the mean temperature would be around –18 degrees Celsius. As a rule [...] Over past decades, the mean temperature on the Earth’s surface has been noticeably rising. What we call “climate warming” is to a large extent due to anthropogenic emissions of CO2 that amplify the natural [...] higher than in the upper air strata. In the high Antarctica plateau over 300 meters, though, the annual mean temperature is lower than that in the stratosphere. In these regions, therefore, an increase in the