Scubareefing
We braving the horrendous chilly cold out there @ -26 Degree Celcius, in order to tell all ya guys out there, how serious is the global warming impact towards the wildlife animals there, and across the ice caps regions, and why there should not be any further delay to take action today, and to join in Climate Change Strike !!! Sorry that we are unable to join Miss Greta physically exchange there at UN, or where she will be hosting her climate change strike, coz we are also busy travelling till towards end of year, to keep advocating for Climate Change, Global Warming, Deforestation, Fight Poverty etc...
Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves may have appeared for the first time in over 7,000 years...
Check out our travel photos @ Antarctica, these photos are just taken today, the ice sheets are really melting fast, sadly, what we understand from the team of Researchers, Explorers and Scientists that we have met there, said that after they spent months studying the wildlife habits there, they told us that there is a division of warm waters vs cold waters, thats causing the thin line of confusion for the penguins, on where they could swim in vast cold open waters, but got into a state of confusion coz of warm currents that are also merging together with the icy cold waters.
Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer ocean water to the surface), is thought to have caused recent ice shelf collapse around the continent – and the glacial thinning associated with it.
The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been mysteriously disappearing at a high rate over the last few decades, scientists have found.
This mass of water is called Antarctic Bottom Water, which is formed in a few distinct locations around Antarctica, where seawater is cooled by the overlying air and made saltier by ice formation (which leaves the salt behind in the unfrozen water). The cold, salty water is denser than the water around it, causing it to sink to the sea floor where it spreads northward, filling most of the deep ocean around the world as it slowly mixes with warmer waters above it.
The world’s deep ocean currents play a critical role in transporting heat and carbon around the planet, which helps regulate the Earth's climate.
Previous studies had indicated that this deep water has become warmer and less salty over the past few decades, but a new study has found that significantly less of this water has also been formed during this time.
Tomorrow, Kevin and I will don our drysuit to do ice diving there @ Antarctica, to promote awareness for Global Warming, Climate Change and Rising sea levels.
Traveling to Antarctica is not an easy or affordable feat.
Most travel opportunities fall into the luxury category. The loophole to getting down to the world’s southernmost continent (for the creative set at least) is through the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (AAW).
The program was developed to get more eyes on the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) efforts there and to get the general public to better understand and appreciate those efforts.
Photographers, sculptors, historians, painters, science writers and children’s novelists have been among the chosen program participants given the opportunity to travel to Antarctica on the National Science Foundation’s dime.
