幾十年來，南極變暖的速度是世界其他地區(qū)的3倍

幾十年來，南極變暖的速度是世界其他地區(qū)的3倍

The South Pole has warmed more than three times the global rate for the past three decades, a new study reports.

一項新的研究報告稱，在過去的30年里，南極變暖的速度是全球的3倍多。

Scientists involved in the study, which was published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change, believe this warming is linked to accelerating ice melt elsewhere in Antarctica, which could in turn fuel faster sea level increase globally.

參與這項研究的科學家們星期一發(fā)表在英國同行評議的《自然氣候變化》雜志上，他們認為，這一變暖與南極其他地區(qū)的冰融化加速有關，這反過來又可能加速全球海平面上升。

According to the researchers’ findings, the warming at the South Pole is primarily from natural climate patterns, but it has been intensified by human-caused climate change. The two factors “have worked in tandem to make this one of the strongest warming trends on Earth,” the study warns.

根據研究人員的發(fā)現，南極地區(qū)的變暖主要來自于自然氣候模式，但人類引起的氣候變化卻加劇了這種變化。這項研究警告說，這兩個因素“共同作用，使這成為地球上最強烈的變暖趨勢之一”。

“This study clearly demonstrates that the remoteness of a region is no barrier to it being susceptible to rapid climate change,” said study co-author Gareth Marshall of the British Antarctic Survey in a statement.

“這項研究清楚地表明，一個地區(qū)的偏遠并不是它容易受到快速氣候變化影響的障礙，”該研究的合著者、英國南極調查局的加雷斯·馬歇爾在一份聲明中說。

Study lead author Kyle Clem, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, along with his colleagues, used weather station data and climate models to learn more about the South Pole’s warming trend.

該研究的第一作者，新西蘭惠靈頓維多利亞大學的研究員凱爾·克萊姆和他的同事們使用氣象站數據和氣候模型來了解更多關于南極變暖趨勢的信息。

The South Pole warmed by roughly 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade over the past three decades, the study found.

研究發(fā)現，在過去的三十年里，南極每十年變暖大約1.1華氏度。

“We have natural processes that are always going to be taking place amid global warming and human’s influence on the climate system,” Clem told CNN. “When the two work together it is quite remarkable.”

“在全球變暖和人類對氣候系統(tǒng)的影響中，我們有自然過程，”克萊姆告訴CNN。“當這兩者一起作用時，就非常驚人了。”