This is not about a fascination with melting ice to promote tourism. It is about the heating of Earth that endangers life on this planet.

February 25, 2020
By Doyle Rice

A heat wave this month in Antarctica (click here) sent temperatures soaring into the mid- to high-60s across northern portions of the normally frigid continent.

Surprisingly, the warmth melted about 20% of an Antarctic island's snow in only nine days, according to newly released images from NASA, leaving behind ponds of melted water where the snow had been.

"I haven’t seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica," said Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College in Massachusetts, in a statement. “You see these kinds of melt events in Alaska and Greenland, but not usually in Antarctica.” 

Pelto said that during the heat wave, which peaked from Feb. 6 to 11, snowpack on Eagle Island melted 4 inches. This means that about 20% of seasonal snow in the region melted in this one event on Eagle Island, Pelto said....