Three Worrying Climate Change Signs In Antarctica

The ice in the Arctic and Antarctica reflect a tremendous amount of heat back out into space – in fact about 85-90% of the heat sent in their direction goes back into space. This is because of the ‘albedo’, or ability to reflect heat, of white surfaces.

Black, on the other hand, absorbs heat, which is why it’s really rather stupid that many homes have black or dark coloured tiling on their roofs.

So given its one of our greatest natural guards against global warming, its rather concering to see three high-profile news articles sharing worrying climate updates about Antarctica in the spate of just a week.

Just one of these occurrences should be cause for alarm, but how does the old saying go – ‘trouble comes in threes’?

See below for our TLDR recap of these updates.