"Rare 2000-Year Event: Warm Water Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves"

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey have found that the recent loss of Antarctic sea ice, which is ten times the size of the UK, is a one-in-2,000-year event exacerbated by climate change. Using the CMIP6 climate dataset and 18 different climate models, they determined that the record low sea ice levels in 2023 were extremely rare and unlikely without climate change. The study also indicates that it could take over twenty years for the sea ice to partially recover, with significant impacts on global weather and Southern Ocean ecosystems.