A recent study made by scientists from the United States rejected the wide accepted thesis that states that Antarctica is undergoing a cooling process. Weather logs and data gathered from United States satellites showed that the temperatures in Antarctica have rather been growing during the past decades. The research was published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

Eric Steig, head of the research and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, stressed that the study clearly showed the fact that temperature figures in Antarctica have been systematically going up for the last 50 years, as the researchers estimate a 0.8 Fahrenheit temperature increase since then.

However, more than the temperature levels themselves, the researchers noticed that the temperature increase rate is about the same as the global temperature figures. The fact that this study demonstrates that Antarctica is passing through a warming process as well, made many people who rejected the global-warming theory to realize that the climate change is happening everywhere on Earth, rather than in developed areas only.

The researchers made efforts to understand why previous studies tended to conclude that Antarctica is undergoing a cooling process. After observing climate patterns at the South Pole, scientists concluded that previous observations were biased by the fact that there is an isolated cooling process at the South Pole and that the frozen sea water drag the temperatures down.