This picture was taken from space on Aug. 9 this year. It is the Antarctic winter now so it is completely dark but this picture was taken using temperatures where white is cold and black is warmer. This type of camera is called a Spectroradiometer.The other remarkable thing about the picture is that warmer or unfrozen water can be seen around Charcot and Latady islands. This is a new development as previously these islands were completely surrounded by ice and the photographs showed only white. This proves that even the winters in Antarctica are warmer than they used to be.
Ice is also melting faster in every other part of the world. So there is no arguement about global warming the only arguement left is whether humans are causeing this warming. When you realize that humans burn the equiviland of almost 200 million barrels of oil every single day then it seem reasonable to assume that this will affect our atmosphere.
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