The continent that climate change has not forgottenAustralian Antarctic Division The Aurora Australis icebreaker does its bit for researching Antarctic sea ice. Record-low Antarctic sea ice levels reached this week are drawing renewed international attention to climate change at a time when Arctic ice extent is also reaching minimums not recorded before. READ MORE:* Human presence in Antarctica unsustainable* Antarctica's huge marine reserve* Antarctica ice shelf at riskBut scientists say the potential exists for much bigger shifts than demonstrated by sea ice totals alone. And unlike the Arctic, where submariners needed to keep accurate readings of sea-ice thickness, Antarctic waters have had little such traffic and logbooks. At the end of the freezing season in August 2014, sea ice extent reached record levels, a result highlighted by climate change sceptics struggling to explain a more consistent reduction in Arctic sea ice.

Source: Stuff March 04, 2017 07:32 UTC