Ice clouds seems to be always on a white pancakes is flat, stretch farther than ever before. However, in the mixed areas of the world, and spread ice may be a ridiculous signal, man-made climate change, scientists say.
This is the South Pole, the opposite of the arctic.
Although the arctic sea ice has lost over the years, the most close to the South Pole has been get water. Antarctic sea ice in September to a record 751 square miles. Just a few days later, is something like this arctic sea ice records the biggest loss report.
Climate change sceptics caught the Antarctic ice think, global warming and scientists to ignore the southern continent, because it is not convenient. But scientists said, what happened, why sceptical distortion.
Wind model transformation and the huge above the Antarctic ozone hole this time of year - whether human activities - may be behind the increase of ice, experts say. This kind of subtle winter sea ice growth, because scientists began to measure it in 1979 first is breathtaking, they say, but more is the research is meaningful.
"Warming the world can have complex, sometimes even surprising consequences," the researchers ted maxium said this week, from Australia's research ship, Antarctic sea ice surrounded. He is in Massachusetts woods hole Marine research institute.
Many experts agree. Ted in the Colorado national snow and ice data center ted scambos added: "it sounds a misdemeanor, but Antarctic climate warming and part".
The third continent, the British Antarctic survey of David WoEnShui, yes, what happened in the Antarctic, man-made climate change take fingerprints.
"Scientific change is far different is of great significance, as we see in the arctic, said:" NASA's chief scientist, ice experts walid Abdalati. "But, this does not mean that we should not pay attention to it, should not talk about it."
Melting sea ice near a pole, and other growth around. But the general trend year after year significantly less in the arctic and the ice in Antarctica.
This is the most obvious in September, the arctic ice sheets is at its top the minimum and the southern ice. In the past 30 years, September in the arctic has lost an average of 5.7 square miles per square mile obtained in Antarctic sea ice.
In the arctic sea ice loss will affect people in the northern hemisphere, causing such a thing in the United States by changing the jet as a high risk of extreme weather, the scientists said. Antarctica's climate characteristics, on the other hand, also does not have the too big effect civilization.
Already after midnight, in Antarctica, where about 3 degrees, maxium introduces rare ship to shore telephone RV australis this extra ice in climate change. What is study two month, 1500 miles away from the nearest city.
"It's just you and penguin," he said. "This is really an amazing beautiful and bright landscape, sometimes even a hair-raising a landscape.
But the North Pole is open oceans surround land, Antarctic - about 1.5 times, America's size - land circle, the ocean, sea ice transmission set aside more space. The climate, geography has made significant differences.
The arctic ice response more directly warm. The main power in the Antarctic is wind, maxium and other scientists say. The strength of the change and movement wind pushed ice farther north, expand its coverage.
Tied in a complex way for climate change of greenhouse gas, these changes in the wind maxium and ted scambos says. Climate change is essentially a wind wall, bottled in Antarctic keep cool weather, NASA Abdalati said.
The wind work should be combined, in the earth's protective ozone layer, the huge gap, usually appear in the Antarctic ozone hole. This is larger than North America.
It is a man-made pollutant chlorine and bromine, this is from fossil fuel emissions that cause global warming is different. Hole made Antarctica this time of year, because the more cool ozone layer absorb solar radiation, such as blankets, keep the earth warm.
Cooling effect, make the ground wind stronger, more stable, pushed ice, Scambos says.
The university of Colorado researcher Catherine Leonard, who is the ship and the maxium, in an email said, Antarctic sea ice is also more and more snowier, because climate change is already make the air for more water.
A decade, Antarctic winter sea ice has been increased by about 1%. If this sounds a bit small, this is because it is a mean. Because China is so big, this is a bit like confuse STH with STH else Maine and California coast temperature, Vaughan said.
Mark Serreze, snow and ice data center director, he said, for a long time, the computer model forecast, Antarctic not quickly respond to global warming, etc. Since 1960, the arctic warming in various areas of the world, Antarctica is picking up, according to NASA's data.
In cruise with maxium scientists spend 8 to 12 hours, every day in the ice storm boots, looks like bugs bunny feet tied up against. This is a dangerous job. On the sea ice can be in any time of crack formation. A few days ago, suddenly split stranded a team of scientists, until air bridge, and deliver them.
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