Antarctica ~ Loss and Gain in Ice
Antarctic Ice Increasing
Scientists working in the Antarctic recently reported that contrary to popular belief that global warming is melting the continental polar region there has been no large scale overall loss of ice. However, research does show concern of ice losses in west coast Antarctica, but on the east coast, which is four times the size of the west coast, there has been significant cooling in recent decades. Over the past thirty years, any loss of sea ice has been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica