Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
- Sarsaparilla ( @Sarsaparilla@kbin.social ) 14•11 months ago
Indeed. Antarctic sea ice extent is at record-breaking lows.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Researchers are increasingly concerned about a huge chunk of ice — larger in area than Mexico — failing to refreeze as seasonal temperatures drop in Antarctica.
“Unprecedented is a word that gets bandied around a lot, but it doesn’t really get to just how shocking this is,” Hobbs, a sea ice scientist at the University of Tasmania, told The Guardian.
“There’s a sense that something weird is going on,” Walt Meier, a senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, told The Guardian.
We’ve seen strong declines in the amount of Antarctica’s sea ice since 2016, with experts still debating how much human activity is contributing to the trend.
Concrete evidence is proving hard to come by, due to the complexity of the continent and its surrounding ocean’s dynamics.
“The Antarctic system has always been highly variable,” Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, told CNN.
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- dunning_cougar ( @dunning_cougar@waveform.social ) 2•11 months ago
There’s still ice in Antarctica? I thought we were supposed to have melted it all by now.
- VoxAdActa ( @VoxAdActa@kbin.social ) 11•11 months ago
Who told you that? Name, quote, date, and source, please.
- dunning_cougar ( @dunning_cougar@waveform.social ) 1•11 months ago
The discovery channel was showing ice shelves sloughing off into the ocean in 2011. They made it sound like it’d all melt soon.
- VoxAdActa ( @VoxAdActa@kbin.social ) 7•11 months ago
What was the name of that program?
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months ago
“We’re All Fucked” Presented by David Attenborough
- dunning_cougar ( @dunning_cougar@waveform.social ) 2•11 months ago
I don’t remember, but they showed footage of ice cascading into the sea. Very alarming.
- VoxAdActa ( @VoxAdActa@kbin.social ) 5•11 months ago
And from images of ice cascading into the sea, you genuinely drew the conclusion that Antarctica would be completely ice-free in less than 12 years?
So, nobody actually told you that, you just decided it was true after seeing video of ice falling into the sea. But that decision was firm enough in your mind to cause you to believe that, since there is still some ice in 2023, the doom-sayers of the Discovery channel were wrong and we had nothing to worry about?
Fascinating. I wish I had the ability to make those kinds of amazing leaps of reasoning on subjects I know absolutely nothing about and then believe them hard enough to post snarky shit in public.
- dunning_cougar ( @dunning_cougar@waveform.social ) 2•11 months ago
I’m just glad there’s ice left to melt. I’m an ocean-half-full kind of guy.
- Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@kbin.social ) 5•11 months ago
That’s the Arctic. The sea ice there does melt completely in the summer
- jay2 ( @jay2@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
There’s supposed to be quite a few things down in that ice. Some encased. Some not so much. Some natural. Some not so much.
- SomeGuyNamedPaul ( @SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org ) 7•11 months ago
Don’t dig up the Stargate, it never helps.
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) English4•11 months ago
Some natural. Some not so much.
What the hell is unnatural there?
- Krackalot ( @Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•11 months ago
🫸 Aliens 🫷
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) English2•11 months ago
If we ignore the fact that aliens somehow had to occur naturally and thus they’re not unnatural… The answer’s still no.
- jay2 ( @jay2@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
Well there is supposed to be a 4-sided pyramid (similar to Gaza but bigger) and also some kind of large underground base for UAP.
What is there? I dunno. Sometime after Operation Highjump, It was decided that folks like us are no longer permitted to go there. It could be an intergalactic puppy farm for all I know.
But I do like the mystery.
- traveler01 ( @traveler01@lemdro.id ) English1•11 months ago
Maybe we will find old alien remnants.
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) English1•11 months ago
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