The southern continent's warming rate, twice as fast as the rest of the world, is much faster than climate models estimate, scientists wrote in a study published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change after analyzing dozens of ice cores. The United Kingdom used data from 78 cores obtained in Antarctica , which made it possible to track climate development over 1000 years. This method makes it possible to compensate for the lack of data from the white continent, where there are few meteorological stations and where satellite data is incomplete. Regarding warming in Antarctica, “the results we get are 20 to 50 % higher than the predictions of climate models,” Mathieu Casado of the Laboratory of Climate and Climatic Sciences (LSCE) of the CNRS, lead author of the study, explains to Agence France-Presse. (RK with AFP)