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Arctic ice cap grows to new heights. The Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for the largest ice extent since 1979. The ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is the largest since satellite records, surpassing even the years 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, a tendency towards growth of Gesamteisausdehnung is recorded.
While the area around the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed in recent years and the surrounding ice volume decreased during the summer in the southern hemisphere, the interior of Antarctica was colder and was the ice-coverage and durable, which explains the increase in the overall expansion. Details of (GIS) According to NASA Godard Institute for Space Studies, the winter at the South Pole has actually cooled by one degree Fahrenheit since 1957, with 2004 being the coldest year was. The winter of that year I was in the southern hemisphere particularly rough, with cold and snow records in Australia, South America and Africa. (more ...)