Antarctic sea ice rebounds in 2026, nearing average after four years
Antarctic sea ice [image credit: BBC]
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This looks a lot like natural variation. Here it’s called ‘the 16th smallest’ since 1979, another way of saying about a third of the years since then were ‘smaller’. Hardly a convincing or even obvious decline of any great significance. How can any of this be realistically connected to human activities?
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Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.
The area covered by Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum level at 2.58 million square kilometers (996,000 square miles) on Feb. 26, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Every year Antarctic sea ice reaches a minimum level during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, so this is the point that scientists measure it for annual readings, says Phys.org.
This year’s level ranks as the 16th smallest since satellite measurements began in 1979.
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The NSIDC cautioned that the 2026 figure is preliminary, noting that “continued melt conditions or strong onshore winds could still push the ice extent lower.”
“This year’s return to less extreme conditions is not unexpected given the large year-to-year variation of Antarctic sea ice seen in the satellite record,” said Walt Meier, scientist at the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center.
Full article here.
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Image: Antarctic sea ice [image credit: BBC]
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