Why Antarctic Sea Ice Stopped Growing In 2015

Though numerical models and popular films like An Inconvenient Truth projected Arctic ice collapse due to global warming and then climate change, the reverse was true in the real world. Ice expanded. That changed in 2015 and a new model estimates why. The authors say the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica has gotten warmer, bringing salty water from the deep up to the surface. Those water changes led to record-breaking lows in 2023, which could destabilize the world’s ocean current system