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Global warming means seas freeze more off Antarctica: study

2013-03-31 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global warming is expanding the extent of sea ice around Antarctica in winter in a paradoxical shift caused by cold plumes of summer melt water that re-freeze fast when temperatures drop, a study showed on Sunday. An increasing summer thaw of ice on the edges of Antarctica, twinned with less than expected snowfall on the frozen continent, is also adding slightly to sea level rise in a threat to low-lying areas around the world, it said. Climate scientists have been struggling to explain why sea...

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