The rapid loss of the Antarctic ice cream can be a climate turn, say scientists say

Canberra (Reuters) rapid loss of the Antarctic sea ice could be a turning point for the global climate and increase in sea levels, changes in marine currents and the loss of sea life that are not the other way around, according to a scientific study published on Thursday.

The paper in the Nature magazine aimed to describe the interlocking effects of global warming on the Antarctic, the frozen continent at the southern pole of the planet in an invisible details.

“There are indications of fast, interacting and sometimes self -governmental changes in the Antarctic environment,” it said.

The study collected data from observations, ice candles and ship’s logbooks to draw long -term changes in the area of sea ice and to link a rapid decline in recent years.

“A regime shift has reduced the Antarctic sea-size extension far below its natural variability of the past centuries, and in a way, abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than the loss of the arctic sea ice is,” it said and referred to melting at the North Pole.

Nerilie Abram, the main author of the study, have changes in the entire ecosystem, which will reinforce each other in some cases.

A smaller ice pane reflects less solar radiation, which means that the planet absorbs more heat and probably accelerates a weakening of the Antarctic’s area, a current that distributes heat and nutrients and regulates the weather.

The loss of ice harms wild animals, including emperor penguins that breed on the ice, and krill that feed underneath.

The heating of surface water will further reduce the phytoplanklectone populations, which remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, the study says.

“Antarctic sea ice can actually be one of these turning points in the earth system,” said Abram, former professor at the Australian National University (Anu) and now chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Department.

Cleaning the global carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the risk of major changes in Antarctic, but may not prevent them, the study said.

“As soon as we start losing the Antarctic sea ice, we put this self -maintained process in training,” said Abram. “Even if we stabilize the climate, we endeavor to still lose Antarctic Sea ice in the coming centuries.”

(Reporting by Peter Hobson; Editor of Kate Mayberry)