> Until 2016 Antarctica's winter sea-ice had actually been growing in size.
>"There is a chance that it's a really freak expression of natural variability," [Dr Mallet] says
There isn't an obvious trend. I'm pleased that they aren't trying to hide this and that the article is clear that we don't know everything about Antarctica (I'd imagine it's very hard to get data for annual sea ice maxima before we started measuring them). This isn't supposed to single-handedly convince anyone that climate change is happening, but show a piece of evidence that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent.
> Until 2016 Antarctica's winter sea-ice had actually been growing in size.
>"There is a chance that it's a really freak expression of natural variability," [Dr Mallet] says
There isn't an obvious trend. I'm pleased that they aren't trying to hide this and that the article is clear that we don't know everything about Antarctica (I'd imagine it's very hard to get data for annual sea ice maxima before we started measuring them). This isn't supposed to single-handedly convince anyone that climate change is happening, but show a piece of evidence that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent.