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Antarctica warming about 3°C since 1950s, scientists tell UN Ocean Conference
Summary
At the SDG Media Zone during the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, ITV reporting and Antarctic scientists described rapid warming—about 3°C since the 1950s—ocean-driven glacier loss, large calving events and risks to sea-level rise, carbon storage and marine food webs.
At a SDG Media Zone session held at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, science correspondent Martin Stu and scientists aboard the research ship Sir David Attenborough warned that Antarctica is warming rapidly and that ocean-driven heat is accelerating glacier loss.
Martin Stu, a science correspondent with ITV reporting from the ship, told attendees that "Antarctica is warming fast" and said scientists aboard the vessel had been able to approach glacier fronts more closely than expected because of unusually low sea ice. He described repeated calving events and said, "Somewhere between 3 and 20,000,000 tons of ice fell into the ocean in front of them," an episode the team is studying for its effects on ocean mixing.
Rhiannon Jones, introduced by Stu as a specialist in how biology and chemistry interact in the ocean, told the session that "the…
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