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Antarctic heat spike shocks climate scientists
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above that was recorded yesterday afternoon between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer :
* Antarctic researchers have been shocked by the speed of events unfolding there over the past two years. A new paper outlines the evidence supporting their belief that a ‘regime shift’ has taken place in Antarctica over the past decade.
* A regime shift is an abrupt change in a system’s response to external drivers (a definition proposed by Lenton et al. (2023) ), which…
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