Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Antarctica is experiencing more and more extreme events, driven in large part by climate change.
These extremes are changing the polar environment, with consequences for us all.
Lots of this video is based on new work by Siegert et al (2023) - if you wanna check out the full paper, it's linked in the references section below 👇
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:27 Extremes across the world
01:03 New report on Antarctic extremes
02:12 Impacts of Antarctic extremes
03:19 What happened to the Conger Ice Shelf?
04:40 Every action matters
#ClimateChange #PolarScience #Antarctica
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!! Siegert et al. (2023) frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283/full
# Coverage here:
news.sky.com/story/tumbling-records-and-unprecedented-changes-in-antarctica-prompt-foreign-office-review-of-climate-change-impacts-12935408
# Further references and resources:
bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/winter-warming-in-antarctica
reuters.com/business/environment/thinning-antarctic-ice-shelf-finally-crumbles-after-heatwave-2022-03-25
https://climateextremes.org.au/simultaneous-antarctic-and-arctic-heatwaves/
berkeleyearth.org/antarctic-heatwave-rapid-attribution-review-dome-c-record
Lhermitte et al. (2023) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-8107.html
Rintoul et al. (2016) science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601610
theconversation.com/conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-what-you-need-to-know-according-to-experts-180077
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/collapse-conger-ice-shelf
Antarctica is experiencing more and more extreme events, driven in large part by climate change.
These extremes are changing the polar environment, with consequences for us all.
Lots of this video is based on new work by Siegert et al (2023) - if you wanna check out the full paper, it's linked in the references section below 👇
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:27 Extremes across the world
01:03 New report on Antarctic extremes
02:12 Impacts of Antarctic extremes
03:19 What happened to the Conger Ice Shelf?
04:40 Every action matters
#ClimateChange #PolarScience #Antarctica
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If you like the videos I make and want to support me to make more like these, you can always sign up to my Patreon here:
patreon.com/Dr_Gilbz.
Subscriptions help me make more (& better!) video content about climate and polar science, and keep these videos independent.
####################################################
!! Siegert et al. (2023) frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283/full
# Coverage here:
news.sky.com/story/tumbling-records-and-unprecedented-changes-in-antarctica-prompt-foreign-office-review-of-climate-change-impacts-12935408
# Further references and resources:
bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/winter-warming-in-antarctica
reuters.com/business/environment/thinning-antarctic-ice-shelf-finally-crumbles-after-heatwave-2022-03-25
https://climateextremes.org.au/simultaneous-antarctic-and-arctic-heatwaves/
berkeleyearth.org/antarctic-heatwave-rapid-attribution-review-dome-c-record
Lhermitte et al. (2023) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-8107.html
Rintoul et al. (2016) science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601610
theconversation.com/conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-what-you-need-to-know-according-to-experts-180077
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/collapse-conger-ice-shelf
