jacket13 t1_j8rb2o8 wrote on February 16, 2023 at 11:51 AM

Reply to comment by Hadochiel in Earth changing seasons. by ooMEAToo

Ice caps are growing again, lung is getting bigger. Remember climate positive news is never shared by news outlets because "it does not get enough clicks".

Hadochiel t1_j8rba28 wrote on February 16, 2023 at 11:53 AM

I'm actually fine with positive news regarding the climate not being shared too much, as not nearly enough is done about climate change.

There's enough deniers around, you wouldn't want them to get more ammo for their "see? There's no climate problem" gun

DeepSpaceNebulae t1_j8t0mmd wrote on February 16, 2023 at 7:14 PM

It’s slightly more complicated than “it’s growing”

If you’re talking about Antarctica, it has warmed (at a rate much faster than elsewhere) which increases precipitation. In the short term that means more cumulative snowfall and ice build up. Long term, that trend will reverse as the warming losses begin to outweigh the precipitation increase

If you’re talking and in the arctic, then that is very misleading. While, yes, the winter has ice sheets growing at rates faster than decades ago, it is melting at even faster rates in the summer. So in the end every year has less and less ice