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Antarctica is colder and more icebound today than at any point in the past 5,000 years.
Research by Hall (2023) found that West Antarctica cooled by more than 1.8C between 1999 and 2018. Satellite data confirm continent-wide cooling, as do multiple glacier studies. Piccini (2024) found the Collins Glacier was 1km farther back 6,000 years ago and began re-advancing about 1,000 years ago, which is clear evidence of cooling since the Medieval Warm Period. Even the biology of the continent documents this shift.
A millennium ago, the Ross Sea hosted around 200,000 elephant seals as far south as 78 degrees. Today, those colonies are gone. They disappeared as the region froze over: too cold and ice-choked for breeding or foraging. The Hall paper concludes: "The last few centuries, including the present, represent the coldest, iciest conditions in the post-glacial period."
Modern Antarctica is not warming, it's freezing.