Is antarctica melting

Answer 1

Yes and no. Yes parts of Antarctica are melting, mainly the tip that juts out towards South America, but as a whole Antarctica has added .8% of ice per decade since 1970. So overall Antarctica is gaining ice mass.

Answer 2

Actually, only the one peninsula that sticks farthest north is experiencing any melting. The remainder is actually experiencing the opposite. Most of Antarctica has been experiencing increased coldness and ice growth for as long as records of such have been taken. This has been and still is one of the notable stumbling blocks in the current Anthropogenic Global Warming models.

Most scientists believe that the reason Antarctica became ice covered in the first place is due to its total surrounding by a circumpolar antarctic current. This prevented warmer waters from reaching the land. Once it had mostly iced over the extreme chill allowed for strong enough polar winds to discourage warmer winds farther north from reaching the land. The peninsula, however, sticks out far enough north that warmer northerly winds can reach parts of it, enough to encourage more melting during the summer and less freezing during the winter, at least at times. Some years even the peninsula region experiences more ice growth than melt.

Answer 3

global warming

and presurized air like aerosol cans bad fumes like car exhaust it all builds up and forms something called a green house effect where light can get in witch makes it warmer but nothing can get out

Answer 4

Antarctica is melting because of global warming, but slowly. The ice cap is melting round the edges, and particularly in the Western Peninsula. Climate change is putting more moisture into the air which is falling as snow, and actually building up as ice in the frozen centre of the continent, where temperatures are still too far below freezing to let it melt.

Answer 5

Global warming is not melting Antarctica -- it is, however, melting the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.

Answer 6

Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface. Land does not melt.

However, 98% of the continent is covered with an ice sheet, and yes, melting does occur.

Answer 7

Antarctica is a land mass that covers 10% of the earth's surface: it will not melt.

Answer 8

Antarctica is a continent and continents do not melt. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent, however, is subject to melting and refreezing in its annual cycle.