Another Extreme Low for Antarctic Sea Ice Signals a Permanent Shift

32 pointsposted 3 days ago
by jandrewrogers
(newscientist.com)

12 Comments

soperj

3 days ago

It's been less than 10 years since they had an all time high for summer sea ice extent.

FrustratedMonky

3 days ago

had to check. confirmed.

article "As recently as September 2014, Antarctic sea ice set an all-time record-high extent. The consecutive string of low sea ice extents in recent years, however, are not easily explained by natural climate variability."

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/antarcti....

The article describes maybe a larger oscillation between highs and lows is occurring.

user

3 days ago

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crooked-v

3 days ago

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FrustratedMonky

3 days ago

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maipen

3 days ago

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c0nducktr

3 days ago

The largest cause is the burning of fossil fuels. Who champions that? Who's lobbying to keep us on that form of energy?

bobbylarrybobby

3 days ago

They are the source of the continued worsening of it since the 90s

FrustratedMonky

3 days ago

Guess you're right. If you see someone being mugged, you have no responsibility to help, and if you were talking to the mugger and pointed to the old lady and suggested that would be easy mark, no fault on you, you didn't do a thing.