Friday, July 11, 2008

The Not So Big Melt

Antarctic sea ice extent is actually at the highest levels observed since we
started watching it via satellite around 1979.  Ice may be shrinking around
the Peninsula, but is net growing over the whole continent
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We have no clue how ice shelves behave over time spans longer than the 100
years we have watched them.  It may well be they go through long-term
natural growth and collapse cycles.
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