New Science: Arctic AND Antarctic Sea Ice More Extensive Today Than Nearly All Of The Last 10,000 Years
By Kenneth Richard on 18. October 2018
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It is often claimed that modern day sea ice changes are “unprecedentedâ€, alarming, and well outside the range of natural variability. Yet scientists are increasingly finding that biomarker proxies used to reconstruct both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice conditions since the Early Holocene reveal that today’s sea ice changes are not only not unusual, there is more extensive Arctic and Antarctic sea ice during recent decades than there has been for nearly all of the last 10,000 years.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
In the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, the sea surface temperatures have been cooling since 1979.
The decline in Southern Ocean temperatures has coincided with an increase in Antarctic sea extent since 1979.
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