Since 1970, when scientists started recording sea ice, the Antarctic sea ice has reached up to the highest level of 20 Million square Km for the first time in the history. On 20th September, this sea ice took in almost 7.78 million square miles. On the other hand, The Arctic is continuously losing the sea ice. Since 1970, Arctic loses around 20800 square miles (53,900 square kilometers) sea ice every passing year. The ice gain reported at Antarctic is around 7,300 square miles (18,900 square km) yearly.
NASA deciphered that although there is a marked increase in sea ice at Antarctic, still if we see all in all, the Earth is performing it exactly the way we expected it to react to global warming. The new records reveal new complications for overall environment of Earth.
A senior scientist from Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA, Claire Parkinson called it as just a miniature effect of global warming. Moreover Parkinson added:
“Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected, but just like with global warming, not every location with sea ice will have a downward trend in ice extent.”