A brief excerpt from the article:
Temperatures in the Antarctic reached a high of 15.4C on 6 June, UK newspaper The Guardian reports. The data was logged by the Argentinian Esperanza base on the Trinity peninsula.
That’s about 59.7F at that base for those that need the conversion, the previous record was 2C [35.6F] 13.4C [56.1F] at that station.
EDITs 1 & 2: I misread so typed the wrong thing, I have fixed it now.
Absolutely bonkers that record-high temps for the year are being set in winter.
Definitely doesn’t bode well for the rest of the year that’s for sure
The elephant in the room is that if Antarctica’s ice cover entirely melts, ocean levels worldwide will rise by about 60m.
Scientists don’t currently believe this will happen anytime soon, predicting between 60cm and 1m by the year 2100, but they also keep saying things like:
[this heat in Antarctica is] "absolutely crazy”.
“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly".
Yeah, it’s been a long time since I studied the various ice shelves in Antarctica, but what I remember is that a mechanical failure on pretty much every identified coastal fault line had a corresponding global sea level rise in the tens of cm over just a handful of years.
If you’re under 50, you’re gonna see tens of millions of people get displaced. This is going to create some incredible pinch points all over the Earth. It’s not entirely our fault but it’s 100% our problem.
Meanwhile lets increase our global energy consumption with a couple of hundred percent for the sake of AI datacenters. It is extremely important we let our trillionaire oligarchs suck out some more stock value before we all drown.
Don’t like immigrants? Stop burning oil.
That’s ok we have a plan for that: we’ll murder them!
Scientists don’t currently believe this will happen anytime soon
According to the most conservative (translation: least disastrous looking) estimates. Anything else has problems getting published.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-predictions-prove-too-conservative/
Old article from 2012 but this was already a problem then. More so now, that “”“climate skeptics”“” are louder than ever (and occupying government positions)
The peak temperature broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C.
The previous record wasn’t 2C; it was 13.4C and that was beaten by 2C.
“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly,” he added.
Researchers stationed on King George Island, 160km from Esperanza, reported large areas of the landscape where bare ground was visible after the mercury rose to 4.6C on 6 June.
Even at the top of the 500-metre summit of the nearby Collins glacier, Muñoz witnesses rain melting the ice.
“There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier,” he said.
March to October is winter in Antarctica… “this time of year” is the middle of winter. We’re cooked.
I did a dumb.
It’s fixed in the body of my post now, thank you.
One correction: 20°C warmer is not 68°F warmer, it’s 36°F warmer.
Imagine a statement that 20 Kelvin warmer was -423.67°F (or -253.15°C) warmer and the problem may be more obvious. (Especially since K and °C are the same size)
It is true that 20°C itself is 68°F warmer than 0°F, but 0°F is not 0°C
I did a dumb.
It’s fixed in the body of the post now.
A great opportunity for building a touristic resort there, I’m sure the Orange and his family can do it!
