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Yeah Oh okay Aspiring science people Here we go Another

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Siri's for you This one on a conflicting viewpoints Well

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kind of again Many people today are studying meteorology on

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the global scale because global warming is you know a

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thing or said better It's a hot topic All right

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moving on There are many contested arguments related to climate

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change One question that's debated involved whether Antarctica is losing

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or gaining ice One side reports that Isis expanding at

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the southern full of the earth This is the opposite

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of what global warming says will or should happen Another

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side claims that well while the inner part of least

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Antarctica is gaining land ice and Arctic up for the

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most part is losing land ice coverage at an increasing

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rate All right let's go to side A East Antarctica

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is many times larger than West Antarctica Parts of the

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East have been showing significant cooling in the past few

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decades Sea ice that was lost in west Antarctica over

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the past three decades was canceled out by increases in

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the Ross Sea region alone Therefore see ice conditions have

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remained stable across the board For Antarctica There's no significant

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change to the massive ice shelves in the east or

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indication that the cap is melting The splitting of ice

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observed might not be uncommon for the western part of

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Antarctica Ice core drilling shows that land ice that the

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pole is in fact getting thicker parts That was side

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eh Now side be turned over the record There we

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go It is important to single out the types of

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ice when talking about Antarctica because sea ice and land

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ice have different trends and effects Measuring changes in the

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land ice of Antarctica is difficult because of the scale

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and complexity Early satellite data showed that loss of ice

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in the West is happening in the east Interior ice

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is actually thickening While there is lost at the edges

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making a balanced or net zero loss of ice in

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the east will more data has been collected and a

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clearer trend has appeared Since two thousand six Land Ison

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east has not been mass balanced and is in fact

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decreasing well Antarctic sea ice has been showing growth since

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the late nineteen seventies The Southern Ocean is warming even

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though sea ice is increasing This is from many factors

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including the hole in the ozone layer and circulation of

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the ocean five and six other Giving all these citation

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things Antarctic sea ice is complex and cannot be assessed

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by simple interpretations Well these findings raise even more concern

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about global warming Right So that was side B Let's

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just move right along into the question Seriously So here

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we go Which side mentions both land ice and sea

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ice Well if you read both side a and side

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be carefully Well we can see that both mentioned land

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and sea ice kind of a lot side A concentrates

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on sea ice but the last sentence very explicitly mentions

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land I see right there because I'd be jumps around

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more than a penguin on the hot plate That's like

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a thing isn't it But it definitely mentioned both sea

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ice here in land ice here So that's it The 00:03:22.38 --> [endTime] answer is d

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