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The southern hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. The southern hemispheric areal coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2005, and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice extent. While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the southern hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. Indeed, according to NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about one degree Fahrenheit since 1957, and the coldest year was 2004. This winter has been as especially harsh one in the southern hemisphere, with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa. In January, a paper appeared in Geophysical Research Letters entitled "A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850". The article is by scientists with the British Antarctic Survey and the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, USA.
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