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Antarctic is increasing at +0.93 million sq km per decade

Arctic is decreasing at -0.17 million sq km per decade

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 88 – 2016

Published on March 29, 2016March 29, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Global Sea Ice is inside the one standard deviation mark.

Antarctic Sea Ice is approaching the above one standard mean mark.

I’m pretty sure Arctic Sea Ice no longer has any chance of changing the maximum for 2016 and therefore will set the record for lowest maximum (NSIDC) by about 20,000 sq km (MASIE disagrees).

South / North

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 87 – 2016

Published on March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

South / North

Antarctic Birds Hold A Grudge

Published on March 27, 2016March 27, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Not only do they hold a grudge, they try and get even.

The brown skua bird lives in Antarctica, which means it doesn’t frequently come into contact with humans. But when researchers from South Korea were stationed in the Antarctic to study the species, they found that despite having limited exposure to humans, the birds could readily determine which humans had gotten too close for comfort to their nest and eggs. And then, the skua would attack accordingly. The researchers describe this phenomena in the journal Animal Cognition.