A new study of Antarctic ice suggests that in spite all the fuss
around climategate, the controversy over whether scientists have
withheld facts casting doubt on the theory of global warming,
there continues to be evidence that the world is heating up. The
latest evidence is from the US Geological Survey, which said its
research is the first to document that every ice front in the
southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula has been retreating
from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes occurring
since 1990. Its latest research, on the southern part of the
Peninsula, is particularly alarming, according to the USGS,
because that area has the Peninsula’s coolest temperatures.
Because the USGS has found ice shelves are retreating in the
southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula, it feels certain
that global warming is affecting the entire length of the
Peninsula. In the words of USGS scientist Jane Ferrigno: This
research is part of a larger ongoing USGS project that is for
the first time studying the entir