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Antarctica - Earth’s coldest and driest continent experienced both an unprecedented heatwave and extreme precipitation in 2022, according to new research
Jaw-dropping footage has captured the moment that a gigantic iceberg collapsed and flipped over just metres away from daring tourists in Svalbard, Norway.
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much? >> it acts as a protective fringe around the continent, it also helps moderate the climate. it keeps the earth cool basically when because we have these polar areas that are bright white and frozen a lot of heat radiates back into space and doesn't go into warming the planet. if we lose a lot of the sea ice, first of all, the area around antarctica will get warmer, but then eventually antarctica itself, this gigantic ice sheet will begin to change. we might see higher sea level rise rates in the future. >> is there a single thing driving this or are there several factors? what gets us to this point? >> that's really a topic of research right now. believe me, the community is discussing this quite a bit. right now the best ideas are that this very warm ocean condition that we have globally has managed to stir into the water around antarctica near the surface, that's usually isolated
and senior research scientist at the university of colorado boulder. i appreciate you joining us. the numbers are very alarming. and yet to some degree, they're also kind of amorphous -- they're so big, it's tough for people to get their heads around them. can you talk about what this actually means. >> yeah, the rate of growth around antarctica this winter has just been way slower than in previous years. and we've been able to monitor . we have a good idea of how the ebb and flow is supposed to go. well, it's fell back quite a bit this whole summer and as a result we're quite concerned about next summer in antarctica because when this sea ice retreats again close to the coast, it's going to expose a lot more of the ice sheet, the permanent ice, to wave action and potential warming. >> why does sea ice matter so
It gets hot in the summer, but what we are witnessing is an entirely new level of heat, in the air, oceans, Greenland and Antarctica, and scientists are worried
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