We're comparing the event to other data of cloud cover, temperature and other factors near Antarctica at that time. It's still too early to tell, but there's a lot of curiosity about events like this and not a lot of data. We've been comparing notes and pooling data to learn more.
Quotes about antarctica (16 Quotes)
Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
That was my first time in Antarctica. And I'm probably going to have the opportunity to go back in a couple years for the same type of experiment.
When I was there it was actually warmer than it was here. At that time there was a cold spell here and the temperature was in the teens. In Antarctica it was between 20 and 40 degrees.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Antarctica.
Greenhouse gases could be having a bigger impact in Antarctica than across the rest of the world, and we don't understand why.
Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of fresh water.
In my mind, I kind of relate back to here on Earthgoing to Antarctica.
This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara.
That's all dependent on the wind and weather. Life in Antarctica is controlled by those two things.
We can now see Antarctica melting. We have a number for the ice sheet. It's a big step toward understanding how the sea level is going to change.
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.