Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future

All of our fear and uncertainty about climate change could be summed up in a single statistic, arguably sent to the emergency summit on the future of Antarctica last month.

Nerilia Abram His presentation at the Australian National University, Canberra, with a slide titled “Antarctic sea ice has declined since 2014, and passed a minus 7 sigma event in July 2023.”

Sometimes the noise…