Posted on 11/24/2016 7:49:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
Log books from the early Antarctic expeditions indicate that the area of summer sea-ice around the continent has barely changed in size in a century.
Researchers have studied the records of pioneering explorers, including Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The study suggests that Antarctic sea-ice is much less sensitive to climate change than the Arctic, which has declined dramatically.
The research has been published in The Cryosphere journal.
A century ago Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton were among those who ventured into completely uncharted territory.
They were the bravest explorers of their age. At the time, their voyages brought a totally new understanding of the Antarctic landscape....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“Antarctic ice has hardly melted in 100 years, log books from Captain Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole confirm”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3966442/Antarctic-ice-hardly-melted-100-years-log-books-Captain-Scott-s-doomed-expedition-South-Pole-confirm.html
There is also photographic evidence.
...but I am sure they must have more hurricanes...Algore told us so.
From the article. "We know that sea-ice in the Antarctic has increased slightly over the past 30 years, since satellite observations began." I forget the exact figure but I believe the expansion has been something around 8 million square miles, so yes the amount of sea ice has "increased slightly".
The thing that most people do not seem to realize is by mass most of the world's glaciers are in Antarctica and they are expanding as well. But what would one expect on a continent whose "The mean annual temperature of the interior is −57 °C (−70.6 °F))"?
http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2016/05/despite-global-warming-antarctica-s-sea-ice-is-growing-00940591.html
The study suggests that Antarctic sea-ice is much less sensitive to climate change than the Arctic, which has declined dramatically.<<<
Somewhere along the line over the years, I read that the arctic is more fragile because there is volcanic activity under the icecap. That global warming is not the caue of the fragility.
Might make for a good update research project for one so inclined.
Ping.
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