[ROCKLOBSTER]

The big change will come when Antarctica finally warms enough to accumulate snow.

Right now it is way too cold to snow much in Antarctica.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute....Are you trying to tell us that it doesn't snow at the South Pole?

So then where did all that ice come from?

[palmer]

The south pole ice took its time to get iced over. The oldest ice is at least 1.5 million years old and the snowfall is as little as an inch per year.

If there is warming in the southern hemisphere (there has not been so far), that will change and Antarctica will start to gain ice more rapidly.