Thursday, October 11, 2012

Experts expect global warming to pack more ice onto Antarctica

Associated Press: The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say. This is Antarctica, the polar opposite of the Arctic. While the North Pole has been losing sea ice over the years, the water nearest the South Pole has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record 7.51 million square miles in September. That happened...

URL: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/10/experts_expect_global_warming.html
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