Arctic temperatures soar as sea ice shrinks

• Main Author: Lieser, JL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Long View Publishing Co. Inc. 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Arctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115319

In the Arctic, two records have been broken neither of them good. Though snowstorms may be battering the Northeastern U.S., climate change is manifesting in a different and more dangerous form at the bottom of the world. As Antarcticas sea ice continues to melt, new data shows that there is 10 percent less of it this year than the previous record minimum back in 2011. Specifically, the amount of sea ice around the southern continent has shrunk to 2.1091 million square kilometers, according to Jan Lieser, a sea ice scientist with the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.