Inaccurate
Study finds Southern Ocean’s surface is becoming saltier and losing sea ice, not experiencing an ‘ocean current reversal’
Claim:
New study finds a major current in the Southern Ocean has reversed.
Articles tagged with
Antarctic
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Source: Twitter/X, The Guardian, Social media users, 2025-07-10 -
InaccurateAntarctica recently gained some ice; that doesn’t mark the end of ice loss, global warming or sea-level rise, contrary to viral claims
Claim:
Antarctica gained ice from 2021 to 2023 so global warming is over, sea-levels aren't rising, and ice loss has reversed in Antarctica.
Source: 2025-05-04 -
InaccurateThe Antarctic’s ice coverage is not increasing to record levels, nor is the continent getting colder, contrary to Curry and Easterbrook claims in CFACT movie
Claim:
Antarctic sea-ice extent is increasing to record levels. Antarctica is getting colder; its sea ice and ice cap are not melting
Source: Instagram, CFACT, Don Easterbrook, Judith Curry, 2023-04-16 -
IncorrectThe Epoch Times prints a range of inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change’s impacts and causes
Claim:
CO<sub>2</sub> is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO<sub>2</sub> is good for plant life
Source: The Epoch Times, Patrick Moore, 2022-09-06 -
How sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic is influenced by climate change
“The decreases have accelerated since the 1990s and have been part of a consistent suite of changes in the Arctic, including rising atmospheric temperatures, melting land ice, thawing permafrost, longer growing seasons, increased coastal erosion, and warming oceans. Overall, it has been a consistent picture solidly in line with the expectations of the warming climate predicted from increases in greenhouse gases. In particular, modeled sea ice predictions showed marked Arctic sea ice decreases, and the actual decreases even exceeded what the models predicted.”
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AccurateA third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse at 4°C above pre-industrial levels, as accurately described in CNN article
Claim:
"A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms"
Source: CNN, Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-09 -
AccurateStudy evaluates natural and human causes of recent rapid warming rate at the South Pole
Claim:
Surface air temperatures at the bottom of the world have risen three times faster than the global average since the 1990s.
Source: The New York Times, Henry Fountain, 2020-06-29 -
Article in The Sun misrepresents Antarctic discovery and misplaces it on map
This article in The Sun describes the chance discovery of a small island in Antarctica’s Pine Island Bay, which seems to have appeared in the last decade. But the article sensationally connects this with a recent record high temperature at a station elsewhere in Antarctica. While warming trends in the atmosphere and ocean may be relevant, a single weather record is not.
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InaccurateData from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming
Claim:
90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing.
Source: Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, 2016-11-26 -
Studies do not support blog's claim that volcanic activity is causing melting of West Antarctic glaciers
Claim:
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming
Source: PlateClimatology.com, IceAgeNow.info, Robert W. Felix, James Edward Kamis, 2020-01-09
