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Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice (futurism.com)

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Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t remember, but they showed footage of ice cascading into the sea. Very alarming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m just glad there’s ice left to melt. I’m an ocean-half-full kind of guy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

probably a lot of mentions of a hockey-stick shaped graph, I bet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There won’t be any more hockey if all the ice melts…