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  • Scott and Shackleton logbooks prove Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking 100 years after expeditions

    Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2...not-shrinking/

    Scott and Shackleton logbooks prove Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking 100 years after expeditions
    Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
    24 November 2016 ? 12:01am

    Antarctic sea ice had barely changed from where it was 100 years ago, scientists have discovered, after poring over the logbooks of great polar explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

    Experts were concerned that ice at the South Pole had declined significantly since the 1950s, which they feared was driven by man-made climate change.

    But new analysis suggests that conditions are now virtually identical to when the Terra Nova and Endurance sailed to the continent in the early 1900s, indicating that declines are part of a natural cycle and not the result of global warming...
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