antarctica and joins us from south argentina. bill, it s amazing you re there. looks incredibly beautiful. can you give us a sense of the scope of the problem how much ice has been lost and what that means for the region as a whole? reporter: yeah. to give you that perspective, anderson, you got to consider the fact that the top of the world, the arctic, is an ocean surrounded by continents. down here at the bottom, it s a continent surrounded by oceans, which complicates climate change as it has been observed and for a long time scientists thought it was somewhat immune to the effects because the ice around the continent was growing. in 2014 it was about 7 million square miles, but in less than ten years the national snow and ice center out of colorado has confirmed it has broken the record again, now it is just over 700,000 square miles. that s over 90% of that ice around antarctica has disappeared in less than a decade. and the trend line is really disturbing because it makes th
glass, it doesn t spill your drink when it melts. all the land ice held in place by the ice dams, a glacial the size of florida, it s already hanging on by its fingernails. but now with less sea ice protecting it, it spells bad news. how much of the melting can be attributed to climate change? because it s so complicated, the weather systems in the southern ocean, they need at least another decade of data to say specifically impeerically that this is what percentage is caused by planet cooking pollution as well, but the trend lines are just so obvious. they ve had spikes in record high temperatures like the freakish ones we saw up in the arctic and greenland are starting to happen down here as well. and this is, of course, a threat to sea coastal cities everywhere. bill weir, appreciate it. thank you. that s it for us tonight. jake tapper s one of one interview with bill mahr starts
the region as a whole? yeah, give you that perspective, anderson, you gotta consider the fact that the top of the world, the arctic is an ocean surrounded by continents. down, here at the bottom, it s a continent surrounded by oceans which complicate climate change as it has been observed for a long time, scientist thought it was somewhat immune to the effects because of the ice around the continent was growing. in 2014, it was about 7 million square miles but in less than ten years, the national snow and ice hunter out of colorado has confirmed that it has broken the record again. now, it is over 700,000 square miles. so, that is over 90% of that ice around antarctica that has disappeared in less than a decade, and the trend line is way disturbing because it makes the glaciers that hold all the land ice in place. we re not worried about the sea ice melting, it s like the ice cubes in your glass, it doesn t sway or drinks in when it melts. it s all that a lot of seismic outs in place
here, so their peak summer is in late february and that is when the ice around this continent at the bottom of the world shrinks so its lowest level. in 2014 that ice was about 7 million square miles but now it s less than 700,000 square miles, over 90% disappearance there, which opens up the ice shelves around antarctica to more sea wave action and weathering which attacks those shelves that keep all that land ice in place. if that melts and slides into the oceans, it will forcibly rearrange every coastal city from miami to shanghai to boston and new orleans. that s just for start e, not to mention the ecosystem collapses at the bottom of the food chain and all of that. scientists once again sending a warning that we have to pay attention to this most remote corner of our planet. we didn t discover antarctica until 40 years after humans discovered the planet ur rain news and we are just learning about what s going on down there
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