The Antarctic image, which is clearly visible as all snow melts due to global warming, is raising awareness of the climate crisis.

On the 21st,'Polar Research Institute' released a 1-minute and 30-second video titled'Antarctic Severe' on its YouTube account. The Polar Research Institute is a research institute specialized in polar science that represents the South and the North Pole.

According to the video, the temperature was observed at '20.75 degrees' at Marambio base in Argentina, Seymour Island, Antarctica in the summer of last February. This is the highest temperature in history since humanity set foot in Antarctica.


The temperature observed on the same day at the Sejong Science Base in Korea, located 250km northwest from here, was '8.3 degrees'. Just looking at the numbers, you may not be able to touch the situation, but you can feel the seriousness in the video that shows that the area around the base is only a flat floor, not snow.

The Polar Research Institute was sad, explaining that this was because the snow melted rapidly due to abnormal high temperatures, revealing the bare face of the Antarctic land.


This melting of the Antarctic glaciers also causes another problem in a series.

According to the British Daily Independent on the 24th of the local time, a research result that has reached 28 trillion tons of ice such as glaciers and ice sheets that have melted from the Earth since 1994 was published in the international academic journal'The Cryosphere'.

Researchers from Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh and Leeds University in the UK warned that increased greenhouse gas emissions would accelerate the rate of thawing, and in the worst case, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could melt, causing global sea levels to rise by 25-30 cm by the end of this century.


In addition, as glaciers and ice sheets are composed of fresh water, when they melt, the salinity of the surrounding seas changes, and if the difference in salinity between the areas with low salt content and the nearby seas is large, it could affect the movement of ocean currents and other ocean circulation. .

"If freshwater inflows change the world's ocean circulation, as some models predict, it could have an impact on global climates in the long run."

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(Photo ='Polar Research Institute' YouTube)