As a lay person I find it really hard to understand the significance of this single days temperature reading. It sounds alarming but I have no idea how to view that single data point. I wish they'd go into more detail in explaining that in these sorts of articles.
Paper mentions Thwaites glacier but does not mention the subsea volcanoes contributing to ice loss in the West Antarctic: <a href="https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-antarctic-glaciers.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-antarctic-g...</a><p>Antarctica as a whole has seen a slight increase in ice over the last 40 years, with record extent being achieved as recently as 2014:<p><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/" rel="nofollow">https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/</a>