Bad Omen, Scientists See Huge Hole in Arctic Last Ice

JAKARTA – A huge hole opens in the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic, Arctic found. Scientists previously thought that this area of ​​ice was the most stable in the Arctic, but the giant rift indicates that the ancient ice was prone to melting.

In a report published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers saw that similar holes opened in 1988 and 2004.

Study lead author Kent Moore, a researcher Arctic at the University of Toronto-Mississauga says north of Ellesmere Island it is difficult to move ice or melt it simply because it is thick. The polynya or open water area that was first observed north of Ellesmere Island could be due to global warming.

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“North of Ellesmere Island it’s difficult to move the ice or melt it because it’s pretty thick and there’s quite a lot of it. So, in general we haven’t seen polynya form in that region before,” said Kent Moore, quoted Live Science, Thursday (10/21/2021).

Sea ice off the northern coast of Ellesmere Island is typically 4 meters thick and has an average lifespan of 5 years. But this last piece of Arctic ice is proving vulnerable to the rapid warming that is occurring in northern latitudes.

According to a July 2021 study, in the summer of 2020, the Wandel Sea, or the eastern part of the “last ice” region, lost half of the ice above it.

Another study in 2021 showed that the ice arch linking the stable sea ice to Greenland formed later and melted faster each year.

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