First formal evidence of anthropological action on climate change in the Poles

The Independent echoes on the first formal scientific evidence of anthropological action on climate change in the Poles. Click here to access the note.

It is the first time scientists have been able to prove the link between the temperature changes in both polar regions are down to human activity and it also undermines climate sceptics who believe the warming trend seen in the Arctic in recent decades is part of the climate's natural variability.

The findings contradict the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said that Antarctica was the only continent where the human impact on the climate had not been observed.