…Mathieu Casado, a paleoclimate and polar meteorologist at France’s Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory, said data from dozens of ice cores has allowed him to reconstruct temperature patterns in Antarctica dating back 800,000 years.

Casado’s research showed that the temperature rise of the last 50 years was clearly outside natural variability, highlighting the role of industry in producing carbon emissions that drive climate change.

Antarctica’s global impact

In a fitting conclusion, Gino Casassa, a glaciologist and head of Chilean Antarctic Institute, stated: “What happens in Antarctica doesn’t stay in Antarctica.” His words serve as an important reminder that everything is interconnected in our world.

Source: Antarctica’s ice loss may have reached an irreversible tipping point – Earth.com