Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. The danger is that the Antarctic sea ice is starting to behave like the Arctic, with sustained loss of ocean cover and consequent absorption of solar radiation.
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