Climate Change - The climate of a place or region is changed if over an extended period (typically decades or longer) there is a statistically significant change in measurements of either the mean state or variability of the climate for that place or region.
Climate change effects all continents but one which is effected the most is Antarctica. Over the past half-century, there has been a warming trend in the Antarctic Peninsula. Surface waters of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica have warmed and become less saline, and precipitation in this region has increased. Antarctica has experianced an decrease in the life of ice shelves., due to regional warming. Since Antarctica is mainly made of ice it could be disastorous if it all had to melt.
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