Antarctic ice has hardly melted in 100 years, log books from Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole confirm

Jonathan Day, who led the University of Reading study, said: ‘The missions of Scott and Shackleton are remembered in history as heroic failures, yet the data collected by these and other explorers could profoundly change the way we view the ebb and flow of Antarctic sea ice. We know that sea ice in the Antarctic has increased slightly over the past 30 years, since satellite observations began.

‘Scientists have been grappling to understand this trend in the context of global warming, but these findings suggest it may not be new.’

It is not known why Antarctic ice has grown since the 1970s. Some scientists believe the widening hole in the atmosphere’s ozone layer has caused stronger surface winds over Antarctica and more frequent storms in the Southern Ocean.

But the results from the ‘heroic age’ of polar exploration suggest this also happened earlier in the 20th century. The log books give details of ice cover, the state of the sea, the weather and wildlife spotted from the deck.

Sandy S. No, EM and I seem to have some sort of empathy. I can recognize when he suffers from his "black dog" and he identified something wrong in the tone of my posts. Looking back, I can see that my changed attitude explains why I went after tomo for his falsehood regarding the BBC. That proved interesting, however, with supporters coming out of the woodwork offering distractions. Stewgreen was the most inventive, offering an almost Churchillian redefinition of "making things up".

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Add my belated best wishes for your wife's full recovery.

Tongue in cheek was one of my options for your comment.

MarkH, tomo, RR, EM thank you for your messages. Mrs K very pleased to be home, but we are apprehensive about a reoccurence about a return of the infection, which was never found.

Ravishing Rattie. Mrs K over many years has been inoculated against my attempts at humour. I'm sure you and she would have a fine old time discussing my lack of it.

"Tonight the BBC was again caught red handed pushing narrative and then stealth editing later ..."

Nov 24, 2016 at 12:10 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Plenty more where that came from, Stewgreen, such as "BBC's Sexist Fight Against E-Sport Sexism". Apparently they asked women about positive and negative aspects, then forgot to actually include positives in the final program. Women involved expressed displeasure at how they felt used/deceived by the BBC trying to push a narrative.

stewgreen, of course Labour don't do anti-semitism, that is what Shami Chakrabati was honoured to say.

Corbyn wants to be surrounded by lots of people who are angry with other people, and who can easily be told to get angry with others as directed. Fortunately the UK Electorate tend not to vote-in angry mobs, and the mobs then start in-fighting.

tomo 11:36, crossed with my slow typing!

Yes agreed, just changing the boss is not going to help