Current Events > Sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66724246

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming.

"It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Without its ice cooling the planet, Antarctica could transform from Earth's refrigerator to a radiator, experts say.
The ice that floats on the Antarctic Ocean's surface now measures less than 17 million sq km - that is 1.5 million sq km of sea-ice less than the September average, and well below previous winter record lows.
That's an area of missing ice about five times the size of the British Isles.

Dr Meier is not optimistic that the sea-ice will recover to a significant degree.

Sea-ice acts as a protective sleeve for the ice covering the land and prevents the ocean from heating up.
Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey explains that the impacts of shrinking sea-ice may become evident as the season transitions to summer - when there's potential for an unstoppable feedback loop of ice melting.

As more sea-ice disappears, it exposes dark areas of ocean, which absorb sunlight instead of reflecting it, meaning that the heat energy is added into the water, which in turn melts more ice. Scientists call this the ice-albedo effect.
That could add a lot more heat to the planet, disrupting Antarctica's usual role as a regulator of global temperatures.

There are signs that what is already happening to Antarctica's ice sheets is in the worst-case scenario range of what was predicted, says Prof Anna Hogg, an Earth scientist at the University of Leeds.

Giant mirrors in space are our only hope at this rate

Vivek: MOAR COAL

Im sure if big oil are successfully sued in CA and pay a few million in fines it will be alright. But to cover those fines theyll have to raise prices further, obviously. Endless quarterly increases dont grow on trees.

Hey at least oil companies got rich

Reminder that Exxon's scientists knew this would happen since the 70s and the first thing they did was to start a misinformation campaign that continues to this day. They still fund climate change denial right wing think-tanks to this very day.

I don't know, there is something twisted knowing your product will destroy the earth and keep selling it regardless.

In the end, at least the line went up I guess.

The Exxon people who initially started that disinformation campaign are probably dead now. That's why they did that. They knew they wouldn't be around by now so they didn't care

_____Cait posted...

Hey at least oil companies got rich

As events like Libya happen I can atleast say our sacrifices were worth it /s

Maybe the species that replaces us will do a better job

summer's gonna get hot hot hot

Hence why California has recently joined the states that has or are suing the oil and gas companies for misleading people about climate change.

_____Cait posted...

Hey at least oil companies got rich

Eheu

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/9/AALMC4AAE2Ud.jpg

Who'd have thought an invention as simple as the combustion engine would end up killing us all

EZ123 posted...

Maybe the species that replaces us will do a better job

LeoRavus posted...

Who'd have thought an invention as simple as the combustion engine would end up killing us all

Feels like our demise would garner this kind of reaction to others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU4Hw-xbBNo