Antarctic ice, September 19th
The story is similar to what I wrote about the relative ice growth and loss in 2013: Antarctic ice is growing while Arctic ice is lost… the end result is then, probably not very shocking to anyone paying much attention, that we are overall losing more ice than we are gaining on this planet.
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center: the Antarctic ice has set a record at 20 million square kilometers, but this is only a tiny piece (about 1/3) of the rapid loss of ice in the Arctic ocean. The arctic has lost about 54,000 square kilometeres of ice per year, while the Antarctic has seen a net gain of only about 19,000 square kilometers.
The overall tendency on this planet is towards warming, even if local fluctuations, seasons, along with changing currents and wind patterns, can sometimes make this picture more difficult to perceive. Despite the fact that approximately 95-98% of climate scientists believe that not only is the planet getting warmer, but that humans are largely fueling the process. They believe this not based on faith, but on a plethora of scientific evidence and hundreds of projections based on thousands of variables.
So although many have sought to now claim global warming “vanquished”, the actual facts of the matter point to an opposite conclusion. Another seldom mentioned, but highly important, point is that global warming is only one of many different factors that are pushing our planet towards a planetary ecological collapse, also known as biosphere collapse.
