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The way I understood it, the article is about glaciers and ice shelves, not about antarctic sea ice extent which is largely driven by wind patterns. The more no
by wcoenen 9y ago
The way I understood it, the article is about glaciers and ice shelves, not about antarctic sea ice extent which is largely driven by wind patterns. The more northward winds, the more sea ice.
Incidentally, antarctic sea ice extent did go from record highs 3 years ago to record lows this year.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/antarctica-sea-ice-record-low/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/antarctica-sea-ice-r...
- jtbayly 9y agoSecond paragraph from the 2015 study linked above makes clear it is talking about land, not sea ice: "The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice."