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Will Antarctica melt before the Arctic?www.wired.com/story/antarctica-is-changing-rapidly-with-dire-consequences-for-the-world/
246 sats \ 7 comments \ @Coinsreporter 6 Sep oracle
A major driver of Antarctica’s cascading crises is the loss of floating sea ice, which forms during winter. In 2014, it hit a peak extent (at least since satellite observations began in 1978) around Antarctica of 20.11 million square kilometers, or 7.76 million square miles. But since then, the coverage of sea ice has fallen not just precipitously, but almost unbelievably, contracting by 75 miles closer to the coast. During winters, when sea ice reaches its maximum coverage, it has declined 4.4 times faster around Antarctica than it has in the Arctic in the last decade.
The loss of winter sea ice in Antarctica over just the past decade is similar to what the Arctic has lost over the last 46 years. “People always thought the Antarctic was not changing compared to the Arctic.
Another theory trying to prove that humanity will be endangered much earlier than we ever thought. The climatologist mean that Nature will bring disruptions very soon. Are they good at their job because I don't think they ever try to find out where the Ice is forming more. It maybe that the Earth is going under a real transformation/shift.
Nonetheless..respect to them.
What do you say?
Will Antarctica melt before the Arctic?
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Sep
No. The Arctic already does largely melt in the summer.
Warmer water can circulate underneath the Arctic, which can't happen with Antarctica.
Also, it's the northern latitudes that are primarily driving global warming.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 6 Sep
So, you believe the global warming is a real thing.
I think it's more chaos than reality.I put the basis of my argument in my realisation that Himalayas aren't melting as fast as they should if the Arctic is melting so rapidly. Also, if there's one glacier melting, I've seen new ones forming up. Nobody talks about the new ones surprisingly.
I have read and trust the old scientific narrations in ancient books which suggest that the formation of the earth and it's atmosphere is always evolving and there's nothing that's on this earth that will possibly destroy the humanity. The global warming is just a temporary shift and it will pass. The Earth heals itself.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 6 Sep
I worded my statement unclearly. "Global Warming" refers to the change in average surface temperatures over the entire planet. That average is rising, but the inference that it's evenly distributed, either spatially or temporally, is completed false.
There's a lot of local variation in climate trends. Arctic winter nighttime temperatures have been increasing and that increase accounts for most of the change in average global temperatures.
We're on the same page about this not being an existential threat and part of an ever adjusting complex system.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 6 Sep
Thankfully we're not foes expect being captains of opposite teams, haha.
I definitely agree with you on every word here. For the last 5 years so, I've witnessed that the winters are cooler here, some days are exceptionally cold. We have been regularly recording below 5° C temperatures in winters which is not usual at my place. And there are instances of snowfall in the lower Himalayas which used to be very rare.
On a side note... If I'm being asked the same question, I'll just say "Neither will melt." Haha
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 6 Sep
It depends on whether or not I get pissed off at Antarctica enough to burn it to the ground. I wouldn't say I'm that angry yet, but rest assured, Antarctica is on thin ice....
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 6 Sep
I believe you 'milkman'.
Antarctica is placed inside your refrigerator, go get pissed off at it. Haha..
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 7h
I sincerely believe that it doesn't matter which one melts first, but rather the change that will occur in the ecosystem if one or both of them melt. Climate change is already a fact and that is the responsibility of us human beings. The ecosystem is made and has been created perfectly for years. We have been responsible for its denigration and deterioration.
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