UQx DENIAL101x 2.3.3.1 Antarctic land ice vs sea ice
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 05/05/2015

Robert Way explains how Antarctic sea ice has been changing in recent years and introduces the modern mystery of how Antarctic land ice is changing.


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