2008 Climatic Research Unit study

The Climatic Research Unit study on polar warming was a 2008 study on anthropogenic climate change in the polar regions led by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, and focused primarily on finding a link between polar warming and human involvement. The study found that warming at the polar ice caps was due to the net effect of "man's influence... through greenhouse gases and ozone depletion". (Ozone depletion has a cooling effect opposed to the influence of greenhouse gases.)
The study is the first of its kind for the polar regions, as studies beforehand such as a United Nations climate panel stated that global warming had been felt on every continent except Antarctica. Scientists from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia participated.
Details
The study, which focused on the link between humanity and polar warming, covered arithmetic mean analysis of Arctic temperatures over 100 years and Antarctic temperatures over 50 years, with temperatures supplied by over 70 Antarctic weather stations and 80 Arctic stations.
Effects on Antarctica
The study was the first to provide strong evidence Before, confirmation of human influence on Antarctica was not possible due to insufficient data, and institutions such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claimed that human-induced temperature changes there had yet to be detected. According to Karpechko, if the ozone layer recovers, it will impact the Antarctic just as it will other areas on Earth, by raising temperatures still further. Recently, some of the Antarctic ice shelves have been observed disintegrating.
Research team
The study was led by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, and was assisted by scientists from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Data was obtained from weather stations around the globe, with special attention being paid to Arctic and Antarctic stations, which numbered 80 and 70, respectively.<ref name=Telegraph />

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