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in the Antarctic - 01/11/2019
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Back at Christmas, 2013 a Russian ship carrying climate researchers to Antarctica got stuck in ice off the coast and had to be rescued.
The deniers were crowing at the time and there was much talk that sea ice in Arctic was contracting while in Antarctica it was expanding.
Of course, the truth was that the ice was melting from below as it is in the Arctic so while the extent was increasing the thickness was decreasing.
And, coming back to now here is data for ice concentration and thickness for now.
And here is a conparison with the same time in 2015 (the 2013-14 data is not available).
It has to be pointed out that Antarctica is very different from the Arctic in that it is a large continent surrounded by ocean so that much of the ice disappears over summer. However the last two years have been records.
Meanwhile, the situation in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand are getting dire.
This is what Antarctica looks like from NASA Worldview.
And here is some more data which indicates that Antarctica is headed for the lowest sea ice on record
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Back at Christmas, 2013 a Russian ship carrying climate researchers to Antarctica got stuck in ice off the coast and had to be rescued.
The deniers were crowing at the time and there was much talk that sea ice in Arctic was contracting while in Antarctica it was expanding.
Of course, the truth was that the ice was melting from below as it is in the Arctic so while the extent was increasing the thickness was decreasing.
As
the members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) reach the
end of their travels together, investigations will soon begin to
establish why their Russian expedition ship, the MV Akademik
Shokalskiy, became trapped in thick and extensive pack ice for 10
days.
The
ship's entrapment at Christmas time led to an Australian icebreaker
being diverted from its own operations hundreds of kilometres along
the coast and a Chinese icebreaker also coming to the rescue.
That
vessel ended up stuck in the ice itself for many days. A smaller
French icebreaker ship was also summoned to the scene. It retreated
when it became clear that the ice was much too thick for it to help.
The
52 members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition were trapped
until 2 January when a helicopter team from the Chinese vessel
airlifted the scientists, tourists and operational staff to the
Aurora Australis
This was in September, 2014
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
This was in September, 2014
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
By 2017 the headlines were changing and we had the lowest sea ice for the time.
At the time I was particularly angry about denial of the reality from the NZ media, most particularly from Radio NZ.
At the very time that we were being told about the changes in Antarctica RNZ continued to push the fake line that "Antarctic ice is not melting like the Arctic".
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Fast forward to this year and again we are headed for a record low sea ice record.
And, coming back to now here is data for ice concentration and thickness for now.
And here is a conparison with the same time in 2015 (the 2013-14 data is not available).
It has to be pointed out that Antarctica is very different from the Arctic in that it is a large continent surrounded by ocean so that much of the ice disappears over summer. However the last two years have been records.
Meanwhile, the situation in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand are getting dire.
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