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Didn't antarctica (south pole) gain a lot of ice? Unexpectedly? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221552
by ajsnigrutin 3y ago
Didn't antarctica (south pole) gain a lot of ice? Unexpectedly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221552
- anoonmoose 3y agoNot to re-start a five-day old flamewar but the discussion you linked to seems pretty divided and my personal opinion is that the answer to your question seems to be "no".
- HWR_14 3y agoNo, and even the first few comments make it clear Antarctica did not gain ice. A subarea of Antarctica, where they expected ice to decrease, gained ice. Antarctica as a whole lost ice. One reason could be that this subarea is an area where ice is lost from, but also an area where ice from Antarctica moves to. So as ice in general melts, some of it also gets relocated to this area.
- csomar 3y agoThe climate change is not equally distributed. Antractica is getting colder. However, the earth, on average, is getting hotter. This means that places that are getting hotter, are getting hotter more than the average. (since some places are not changing or getting colder).