Antarctica’s Future is in Crisis and Urgent Action is Needed

If all our fear and uncertainty about climate change could be summed up in a single statistic, it certainly delivered last month’s emergency summit on the future of Antarctica.

Nellie Abram The Australian National University, Canberra, professor began his presentation with a slide titled, “Antarctic sea ice has declined sharply since 2014, exceeding -7 sigma in July 2023.”

Sometimes there is noise…