Why Antarctica is and is Not in Danger

NASA’s latest study shows that Antarctica is actually gaining more ice than it is losing. Scientists have found that more ice is starting to pile up in the East and West of Antarctica than it is thinning out. The reason why this is happening is precisely due to global warming. Confused? It goes like this; ice from the ice flow evaporates due to the warmer temperatures, when it rises, the air currents allow the precipitates to travel. However, it is still icy cold in the Antarctica, and colder even more the higher the climb into the atmosphere, the precipitates fall as snow, and that is how Antarctica is gaining a lot of snow on the Eastern and Western parts of the continent.

The Antarctica ice sheet could fit both the United States and Mexico combined. Using the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite, researchers have found that the snow accumulation on these sites was about 121 billion tons of snow a year in the 1990’s, however, the number drops to 82 billion tons in the early 2000’s. Research shows that Antarctica is not melting as fast as the Arctic is, it is seeing the same rise in temperature that the rest of the world seems to be seeing. However, it is putting a lot of precipitate out in it’s studies. Science shows that it is the Arctic that is melting faster than ever before at a rapid temperatures. There is an ozone hole over Antarctica, that is causing weather patterns to change-which is dumping precipitate over the East and the Western part of Antarctica, which is why it is slowing Global Warming down.

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