A new study of Chinese scientists from the University of Tunzi shocked the climate community: Antarctica, which has lost its ice with a catastrophic rate for decades, suddenly began to increase it. From 2021 to 2023, the icy continent not only compensated for some of the losses, but also reduced the increase in the level of the oceans by almost 15%.
This turn in the climate trend, described in the Daily Mail , has become an argument for skeptics who already state: climatic crisis - exaggerated or invented in general.
During 2002-2020, Antarctica lost about 120 billion tons of ice annually. This led to an increase in the ocean by 5.99 mm by 2020. However, the opposite trend began unexpectedly since 2021 - intense snowfall brought moisture to the continent, which formed new layers of ice. As a result, in these years, Antarctica increased by about 108 billion tons of ice every year.
These changes were particularly noticeable in Eastern Antarctica - on the earth Queen Mod, Enderby Earth and in other regions where heavy snowfall came.
The results of the study became a weapon in the hands of climate policy critics. Some of them, including Professor at the University of Cabrid, Mike Galm, claims that climate panicers bend the stick, presenting climate change as an apocalypse.
According to the professor, climate change is not a "compent that flies to the ground", but a multifactorial process that does not always lead to catastrophe. And new data only confirm the complexity of global climatic processes that do not fit into simple schemes.
In parallel, other studies show positive changes. In particular, the ozone hole over Antarctica is gradually closed due to the international efforts to ban ozone -depleting substances.
In addition, a team of Cambridge is developing a technology that will artificially build ice in the Arctic using seawater injection. This should slow or even stop the melting of ice in the northern regions of the planet.
Despite the record increase in ice over the last three years, scientists have urged not to draw hasty conclusions. Antarctica still suffered a total loss of almost 1.85 trillion tons of ice over two decades, and temporary improvement is more an exception than a new norm.
