Nature World News: Strong westerly winds may be the reason Antarctic sea ice continues to expand in spite of a warming climate, a new study shows.
Even as Arctic sea ice is hitting record lows, the Antarctic has been reaching record highs, baffling researchers and fueling arguments posed by global warming skeptics.
"The overwhelming evidence is that the Southern Ocean is warming," Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, said in a statement. "Why would sea ice...