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Antarctic Sea Ice on Cusp of Record Winter Low For Second Year Running
Tuesday September 10, 2024. 04:40 PM , from Slashdot
'What we're really talking about are two incredible extreme events,' said Dr Will Hobbs, a sea ice researcher at the University of Tasmania. 'Last year was outrageous and it's happened again.' Hobbs said at monthly and yearly timescales the atmosphere was the main driver of regional variability. 'What's different now is that warmer Southern Ocean temperatures are really having an impact on the sea ice,' he said. 'We know that the past two years have been the warmest on record for the planet, with global temperatures more than 1.5C above pre-industrial for extended periods. This global warmth is now reflected in the oceans around the Antarctic.' On Saturday, Southern Ocean sea ice covered 17m sq km, less than the previous low of 17.1m sq km last year. The long-term average for 7 September based on satellite data is 18.4m sq km. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/09/10/1437259/antarctic-sea-ice-on-cusp-of-record-winter-low-for-...
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