Researchers at Tongji University have discovered that Antarctica gained record amounts of ice between 2021 and 2023, reversing decades of ice loss. This change, attributed to intense snowfall, has led to a slowdown in global sea level rise by nearly 15%. While skeptics have taken this temporary weather reversal to deny climate change, scientists caution that this is an anomaly and patterns may change again. This adds to the ongoing debate surrounding climate science amid shifting weather phenomena.
Although the Antarctic Ice Sheet had been losing ice at an alarming rate for nearly two decades, between 2002 and 2020, that trend sharply changed in 2021.
From 2021 through 2023, the study found unusually 'intense snowfall' in Antarctica helped build up layers of fresh ice, an event that also caused sea level rise to slow.
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