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NSIDC reported that the 2024 Antarctic maximum was 77,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometers) above the 2023 record-low extent, but it was 598,000 square miles (1.55 million square kilometers) below the average maximum extent from 1981-2010. In that sense, it’s continuing a pattern that began around 2016, with most winters from 2016-2022 having below-average ice extents. In another sense, however, it’s nothing like those years; like 2023, the 2024 winter maximum was so far outside the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate that the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state.
But according to the Climate Change deniers, it is all Fake Truths and scamming by the people saying that our world is not suffering a game changing Climate Change.
2024 Antarctic sea ice winter maximum second lowest on record
The area around Antarctica where the ocean was at least 15 percent ice covered reached 6.63 million square miles (17.16 million square kilometers) before starting its annual spring melt. The 2024 ice extent was second smallest of the satellite record, only slightly above the extreme record low set in 2023.NSIDC reported that the 2024 Antarctic maximum was 77,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometers) above the 2023 record-low extent, but it was 598,000 square miles (1.55 million square kilometers) below the average maximum extent from 1981-2010. In that sense, it’s continuing a pattern that began around 2016, with most winters from 2016-2022 having below-average ice extents. In another sense, however, it’s nothing like those years; like 2023, the 2024 winter maximum was so far outside the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate that the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state.
But according to the Climate Change deniers, it is all Fake Truths and scamming by the people saying that our world is not suffering a game changing Climate Change.