In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist dr. Rapid growth of arctic sea ice continues real climate. Mass gains of antarctic ice sheet greater than losses. The ice extent stayed above this benchmark extent for several days. Arctic sea ice news and analysis sea ice data updated daily with. Stay tuned for the march results but the arctic melting pause is alive and kicking 12 years later. The graph above shows arctic sea ice extent as of april 1, 2020, along with daily ice extent data for four previous years and the record low year. Every summer, the arctic ice cap melts to what scientists call its minimum before colder weather begins to cause ice cover to increase. The west antarctic ice sheet, the biggest mass of ice in the world, has been growing since the end of the nineteenth century. Sea ice concentration is the percent areal coverage of ice within the data element grid cell. A new nasa study says that an increase in antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. A recent study by nasa found that sea ice is growing faster during the winter months today than it did decades ago. Bad news alarmists official data reveals arctic sea ice is. By 2005, a slightly constant decrease in the size of the polar ice caps.
Oct 02, 2019 nasas cryospheric sciences program supports studies based on satellite and aircraft remote sensing observations to understand the factors controlling changes in the ice and its interaction with the ocean, atmosphere, solid earth, and solar radiation. A 40y record reveals gradual antarctic sea ice increases. Single data points presented without context do not interfere with the scientific consensus on. Updated data from nasa satellite instruments reveal the earths polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in. The extent of arctic sea ice at the end of this summer was effectively tied with 2007 and 2016 for second lowest since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s. Thats because the decreases in arctic sea ice far exceed the increases in antarctic sea ice.
The study said that ice gains east antarctica were canceling out ice. Sea ice in the arctic appears to have hit its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. A nasa study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in antarctic ice flow into the ocean. Aug 20, 2017 here lies the problem, in fact the ice caps have a record low. Nov 03, 2015 a new nasa study says that antarctica is overall accumulating ice.
Holland used data from nasa s national snow and ice data center distributed active archive center nsidc daac to calculate the ice concentration rate of growth for each single day, which he called intensification. The findings confirm accelerating ice losses from the west antarctic ice sheet and reveal surprisingly steady rates of flow from its much larger neighbor to the east. Nov, 2015 nasa just released a study showing that antarctica is actually gaining ice at a faster rate than its losing it. Arctic sea ice is growing faster than before, but theres a catch. This is climate skeptics latest argument about melting. If all the ice in antarctica melted, it would raise sea levels by 190 feet. Nasa earth observatory 2018, april 12 shipping responds to arctic ice decline. Nasas oceans melting greenland omg project has revealed greenlands jakobshavn glacier, the islands biggest, is actually growing, at least at its edge. Nasagoddard space flight center scientific visualization studio. The satellite record reveals that a gradual, decadeslong overall increase in antarctic sea ice.
The truth about arctic and greenland ice by leonard weinstein, scd former nasa senior research scientist leonard weinstein, scd uses the melting of arctic and greenlandish ice to show how co2 can not cause catastrophic melting in the future. A timelapse animation has been released by nasa showing how the arctic sea ice has changed over the past 30 years. The rapid decreases reduced the antarctic sea ice extents to their. Nov 03, 2015 a nasa study has climate scientists up in arms. Why climate change skeptics love this 2015 nasa study big think. Eleven years of arctic sea ice thickening real climate science. Overall, the antarctic ice cap was certainly not growing ice wise over the period 200216. Arctic sea ice is growing faster than before, but theres. Instead of shrinking rapidly as is often claimed by global. Nasa satellite data show the polar ice caps remained at.
May 27, 2015 this is climate skeptics latest argument about melting polar ice and why its wrong. The plots and colorcoded maps are chosen to provide information about the current state of the sea ice cover and how the most current daily data available compare with the record lows and record highs for the same date during the satellite era. I think time has caught up with your comment lets just say ice overall is growing in antarctica, okay. If global warming is real, why is antarctic ice growing. The study said that ice gains east antarctica were canceling out ice losses in the west. A 40y record reveals gradual antarctic sea ice increases followed. Nov 02, 2015 nasa says this challenges the latest published findings from the u. Sea ice surrounding antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a longterm satellite record to map the extent in the late 1970s. Mar 28, 2018 according to the danish meteorological institute, arctic sea ice volume is growing rapidly, normal and the highest in several years.
A recent study by nasa found that sea ice is growing faster during the. Nasa releases timelapse of the disappearing arctic polar ice cap. Patrick michaels at the website of cfacts friend and ally the competitive enterprise institute. Antarctic ice growing is just the first evidence global warming is not real antarctica is growing not shrinking, the latest satellite records show. It is also one of the most active, discharging a tremendous amount of ice from the greenland ice sheet into ilulissat icefjord and adjacent disko baywith implications for. The different thicknesses of sea ice form a spectrum of colors and shapes ranging from dark black open water, a thin greaselike covering called grease ice, and thicker grey ice. This is of course the exact opposite of what fraudsters at national geographic and newsweek are claiming. This year, arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum march, 2019. The polar ice sheets grow via snow accumulation and shrink through melting and the production of icebergs. Nov, 2015 if global warming is real, why is antarctic ice growing. More than half of icelands numerous ice caps and glaciers lie near or. Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer.
Rapid growth of arctic sea ice continues real climate science. Because ice measurements in antarctica are the are all the data one could ever hope to need to make conclusion about sea ice and global warming right to put it nicely, that notion is hilariously preposterous. But ice caps generally have been declining worldwide. Nov 02, 2015 so nasa is saying that antarctic ice is growing. Nasa releases timelapse of the disappearing arctic polar. Although they were abnormally large, the state of the polar ice caps in 1979 became the standard baseline in nasa s study. Eleven years of arctic sea ice thickening real climate. The nasa research team found that in the 1980s, sea ice on average in the arctic was 6. Jan 31, 2020 arguments that we neednt worry about loss of ice in the antarctic because sea ice is growing or even that sea ice in the antarctic disproves that global warming is a real concern hinge on confusion about differences between sea and land ice, and what our best information about antarctic ice tells us. More than 26,000 years ago, sea level was much lower than it is today partly because the ice sheets that jut out from the continent of antarctica were enormous and covered by grounded ice ice that was fully attached to the seafloor. September arctic sea ice is now declining at a rate of 12. The east antarctic ice sheet has grown slightly over the period shown.
John, there is currently more ice in the arctic than the average of the past 9000 years. Jan 03, 2019 the volume of sea ice is declining for the 15 year period according to the data cited here. Annual arctic sea ice minimum 19792019 with area graph. Antarctic ice sheet is causing the small but statistically significant sea ice expansion in the region. The latest revelation heavily contradicts what climate change. Nasa releases timelapse video of depleting arctic ice cap.
Strong arctic seaice growth this year watts up with that. Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite. The extent of thick ice has doubled over the last ten years. Dec 06, 2018 this increase in the amount of sea ice growing in winter doesnt overcome the large increase in melting weve observed in recent decades, said alek petty, a sea ice scientist at nasas goddard space flight center in greenbelt, maryland, and lead author of the study. An environmental analyst claims that satellite data collected by nasa revealed polar ice caps have not melted due to global warming. Presently, both ice sheets are imbalanced losing more ice annually than they are gaining and their ice loss is estimated to be currently causing about a half of the observed sea level rise. This is climate skeptics latest argument about melting polar ice and why its wrong. Antarctic ice sheet is actually growing by billions of tons. Zwally will again challenge the prevailing narrative of how global warming is affecting the south pole. Antarctic sea ice is also growing this year with respect to last year, so global sea ice extent is going to see an important jump this year. Massive arctic ice gain over the past five years real.
Feb 26, 2018 nasa posted this video to youtube with this description, arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, its becoming younger and thinner as well. Scientists have an answer global warming is melting the arctic and glaciers worldwide, but not so much the sea ice in antarctica. Despite antarctic gains, global sea ice is shrinking. New study sharpens focus on antarctic ice loss nasa sea. Still, areas of the continent, like the antarctic peninsula photographed above, have increased their mass loss in the last decades. Even though antarctic sea ice reached a new record maximum in september 2014, global sea ice is still decreasing, said parkinson, who is based at nasa s goddard space flight center. During the 10 year period from 2008 to 2018 sea ice in the arctic appears to have stabilized but has not increased significantly. This increased growth of sea ice has helped to slow down the overall reduction in arctic sea ice and delayed an icefree. Nasa goddard produces sea ice thickness estimates based on data.
The 2019 wintertime extent reached on march ties with 2007s as the seventh smallest extent of winter sea ice in the satellite record, according to scientists at the nasasupported national snow and ice data center and nasa. Why climate change skeptics love this 2015 nasa study. This increased growth of sea ice has helped to slow down the overall reduction. The truth about arctic and greenland ice global warming hoax. Antarcticas contribution to sea level rise was mitigated. Read more arctic sea ice volume growing, not shrinking. Will this rise in ice help keep global warming at bay. Arctic sea ice news and analysis sea ice data updated daily. Return of arctic ice cap as it grows by 29% in a year.
Analyses of satellite data showed that the arctic ice cap shrank to 4. Recent studies show antarctica is gaining ice faster than its losing it. Jun 06, 2019 arctic seaice volume was higher on june 1st than on the same date in 2011 and far, far higher than on the same date in 2012, 2016 and 2017. Nasa says antarctic ice may be growing after all aol news. Oct 04, 2017 does an increase in arctic and greenland ice cast doubt on the reality of global warming. The sea ice estimates from the national snow and ice data center, nasa s archive for sea ice data, assume that this hole is ice filled. Antarctic sea ice growing at record rate national snow. It is also one of the most active, discharging a tremendous amount of ice from the greenland ice sheet into ilulissat icefjord and adjacent disko baywith implications for sea level rise. Arctic ice levels are continuing to decline, causing a freshwater influx. These graphs show the total average volume of sea ice by year, not simply the volume of ice on 12 of each year. All this time, the melting of glaciers and ice caps has been the driving force behind leftists claims that we have to run in fear of man made global warming.
Dec 10, 2018 a recent study by nasa found that sea ice is growing faster during the winter months today than it did decades ago. A 2015 nasa study caused controversy by claiming that antarctica was gaining more ice than it was losing. Mar 20, 2019 sea ice in the arctic appears to have hit its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. Bad news alarmists official data reveals arctic sea ice. New study brings antarctic ice loss into sharper focus nasa. Antarctic sea ice, on the other hand, has not been considered a climate change indicator. According to the danish meteorological institute, arctic sea ice volume is growing rapidly, normal and the highest in several years.
Both the arctic, which i lived under the greenland ice cap, and the antarctic has been there much lon. The 2019 wintertime extent reached on march ties with 2007s as the seventh smallest extent of winter sea ice in the satellite record, according to scientists at the nasa supported national snow and ice data center and nasa. May 19, 2015 updated data from nasa satellite instruments reveal the earths polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. So, while the glacier is growing, the ice sheet is still losing tremendous mass and contributing to sealevel rise. A newly completed 40y record of satellite observations is used to quantify changes in antarctic sea ice coverage since the late 1970s. Nasa posted this video to youtube with this description, arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, its becoming younger and thinner as well. Older sea ice has a bright white covering of snow and many chaotic deformation features visible as ridges and rubble fields caused by the continuous motion of the ice. What antarcticas incredible growing icepack really means.
Arctic sea ice nonsense the media, nasa and noaa blatantly lie to the public. It wasnt a record low, but it continued a trend of declining sea ice maximums and minimums. Will the rise in ice help keep global warming at bay. Though ice growth isnt exactly nasas forte, nasa is responsible for delivering some of the most important data in the climate change. This is a big change from 1939, when the glaciers of greenland and norway were facing catastrophic collapse. May 31, 2016 giant icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in vincennes bay, antarctica. Marc morano featured a post about a fascinating chinese study from dr. Wintertime arctic sea ice growth slows longterm decline. This graph shows the average monthly arctic sea ice extent each september since.
The zwally theorising mentioned in the op update is an interesting theory but nothing more. Walt meier of nasa goddard space flight center describes how the sea ice. Nasa just released a study showing that antarctica is actually gaining ice at a faster rate than its losing it. Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on september 19 and again on september 23, 2018, according to researchers at the national snow and ice data center nsidc and nasa. Although not all the studies agree, most climate scientists argue that, yes, antarctica is losing mass in a warming world. Jul 06, 2017 what to believe in antarcticas great ice debate. In a recent interview with the british station itv, president donald trump falsely implied the globes ice caps are at record high levels. Now that the arctic melt season has started in earnest, we find a surprising trend.
This is climate skeptics latest argument about melting polar. Why is antarcticas sea ice growing while the arctic melts. Nasas oceans melting greenland omg project has revealed greenlands jakobshavn glacier, the islands biggest, is actually growing, at least. Oct 28, 2016 in this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist dr. What to believe in antarcticas great ice debate scientific. In 2019, the arctic minimum sea ice covered an area of 4. Since the ice caps are growing, according to nasa, then how. If the antarctics ice sheets are growing, what would that mean for global sea levels in the longterm. Nasagoddard space flight center scientific visualization studio and nasa earth observatory jesse allen view arctic larger, view antarctic larger the steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the arctic ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention.
As can be seen in these nasa satellite images, the glacier declined. Jul 16, 2019 a newly completed 40y record of satellite observations is used to quantify changes in antarctic sea ice coverage since the late 1970s. Sea ice spreads over vast areas and has major impacts on the rest of the climate system, reflecting solar radiation and restricting oceanatmosphere exchanges. While antarcticas sea ice is growing somewhat, the arctic and the worlds glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. Nasa earth observatory 2019, september 27 2019 arctic sea ice minimum is second lowest. Nasa scientists claire parkinson and nick digirolamo have calculated that arctic sea ice has lost roughly 54,000 square kilometers 21,000 square miles of ice for each year since the late 1970sequivalent to losing a chunk of. Whereas arctic sea ice mostly sits in the middle of landlocked oceanwhich is more sensitive to sunlight and warming airantarctic sea ice surrounds land and is. Nasa glaciologist jay zwally first challenged the consensus on antarctica in 2015 when he published a paper showing ice sheet growth in eastern antarctica outweighed the losses in the western ice sheet. The nasa site i mentioned in my post above seems to show land ice mass changes. A recent nasa study found that since 1958, the arctic sea ice cover has lost on average around twothirds of its thickness and now 70 percent of the sea ice cap is made of seasonal ice, or ice that forms and melts within a single year. Jakobshavn glacier in western greenland is notorious for being the worlds fastestmoving glacier.
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