Detection and attribution of Antarctic climate change

the current understanding of climate changes that have occurred in the last 50 years over antarctica is presented with a focus on: (i) a summer warming of the eastern antarctic peninsula, which caused the collapse of the larsen b ice shelf, (ii) the observed significant increase of total sea ice extent and (iii) an anthropogenic ‘fingerprint’ in the antarctic-wide temperature change pattern. the implications of this for predictions of the future are discussed.