Don’t visit Antarctica!
Seriously, the tourism in Antarctica has to stop, it is ruining the environment there. So please don’t go there. Maybe just go to Alaska. Who even knows the difference?
Antarktischer Eisschild hat in der Vergangenheit zum rasanten Meeresspiegelanstieg geführt
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, 28 Mai 2014: Der Antarktische Eisschild hat zum Ende der letzten Eiszeit in kurzer Zeit sehr viel Eis verloren und damit den Meeresspiegel weltweit rasant um mehrere Meter ansteigen lassen. Mit ihrer Studie liefern die Wissenschaftler den ersten Beweis dafür, dass der Massenverlust des Antarktischen Eisschildes wesentlich dazu beigetragen hat, dass der Meeresspiegel am Ende…
Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding?
By Laura Naranjo (NSIDC), first published January 31, 2014. In the following an edited version, reposted here with permission. Antarctic sea ice is ruled by very different systems than Arctic sea ice. The reasons behind this increase are complex, and several recent studies show that scientists are still trying to understand them. Ice and wind Atmospheric…
New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt
An Australian-led research team found that sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted by models, because changes by disruptive westerly winds, weren’t taken into account. Conservative estimates so far, projected irreversible melting in the course of a few centuries, depending on the temperature increase. Related Each degree of global warming might ultimately raise…
The Runaway Glaciers in West Antarctica
NASA/JPL press release, May 12, 2014: A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea. The study presents…
The Antarctic Half of the Global Thermohaline Circulation is Collapsing
By FishOutOfWater (DailyKos): The largest source of the coldest water in the world’s oceans ceased producing Antarctic Bottom Water in 1976. The surface water around Antarctica, which has be been freshening since the 1950’s, formed a lid of low-density water stopping the overturning process in the Weddell sea near the coast of Antarctica. The Weddell…
The Earth without Ice (Deglaciation – Sea Level Rise)
Last year the National Geographic looked how the continents do with no ice on Earth. IF ALL THE ICE MELTED Explore the world’s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into…
Antarctica’s ice loss on the rise (December 2013)
Published 11 December 2013 | Release URL (ESA CryoSat) Three years of observations by ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably more than when last surveyed. The imbalance in West Antarctica continues to be dominated by ice losses from glaciers flowing…
Extensive ice in Antarctica
Released by National Snow and Ice Data Center | Access date January 4, 2013. While it is early winter in the Arctic, it is early summer in the Antarctic. Continuing patterns seen in recent years, Antarctic sea ice extent remains unusually high, near or above previous daily maximum values for each day in November. Sea ice…