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It's 70 Degrees Warmer Than Normal in Eastern Antartica. Scientists Are Flabbergasted.

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Since the crazy Republican GQP Party doesn't even believe in climate change, this is another crucial reason why these deranged people must NEVER run the Federal government again. --

The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists.

“This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system,” said Jonathan Wille, a researcher studying polar meteorology at Université Grenoble Alpes in France, in an email.
“Antarctic climatology has been rewritten,” tweeted Stefano Di Battista, a researcher who has published studies on Antarctic temperatures. He added that such temperature anomalies would have been considered “impossible” and “unthinkable” before they actually occurred.

Parts of eastern Antarctica have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees (40 Celsius) above normal for three days and counting, Wille said. He likened the event to the June heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, which scientists concluded would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change.

 
Scientists can’t explain it so they go to global warming as the default answer instead of we don’t know
 
Since the crazy Republican GQP Party doesn't even believe in climate change, this is another crucial reason why these deranged people must NEVER run the Federal government again. --






Still frozen, at freezer temps (Zero degrees or below).

Lowers cost of heating at Antarctic stations too, picnic weather.

No problem, gets a little warmer and open for skiers and ice hostels. Great news.
 
Scientists can’t explain it so they go to global warming as the default answer instead of we don’t know

It's all a horrible conspiracy to make government raise taxes on everyone, including the scientists in on it, to do nothing about nothing. The cleverererest hoax.
 
Still frozen, at freezer temps (Zero degrees or below).

Lowers cost of heating at Antarctic stations too, picnic weather.

No problem, gets a little warmer and open for skiers and ice hostels. Great news.

From the article --

In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values above -30°C were never observed,” wrote Di Battista in an email.

Keller and Lazzara said in an email that such a high temperature is particularly noteworthy since March marks the beginning of autumn in Antarctica, rather than January, when there is more sunlight. At this time of year, Antarctica is losing about 25 minutes of sunlight each day.

Warm ocean temperatures threaten to destabilize Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, a slab the size of Florida that contributes about 4 percent of annual global sea level rise.



 
From the article --

In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values above -30°C were never observed,” wrote Di Battista in an email.

Keller and Lazzara said in an email that such a high temperature is particularly noteworthy since March marks the beginning of autumn in Antarctica, rather than January, when there is more sunlight. At this time of year, Antarctica is losing about 25 minutes of sunlight each day.

Warm ocean temperatures threaten to destabilize Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, a slab the size of Florida that contributes about 4 percent of annual global sea level rise.




I didn't see any claim that ocean temperatures were 70 degrees higher, therefore it is irrelevant to my comments. A welcome bit of balmy weather is transit. No need to worry, all is well and soon I'll be looking to open a tiki hut bar.
 
And yet fossilized forests have been found under the ice in Antartica - kinda shoots down the "this could only happen because of AGW" doesn't it.
Who said that?
 
And yet fossilized forests have been found under the ice in Antartica - kinda shoots down the "this could only happen because of AGW" doesn't it.

Is there a fantasy point buried in your sentence somewhere?
 
Since the crazy Republican GQP Party doesn't even believe in climate change . . .

The Republican Party believes getting rich is more important than preserving nature because that is all it cares about - money money money. So they deny climate change out of greed, not academic stupidity.
 
Is there a fantasy point buried in your sentence somewhere?
Not at all; it's very simple. Yelling and screaming about high temperatures in Antarctica being AGW ignores that similar temperatures have occur without AGW.
 
Not at all; it's very simple. Yelling and screaming about high temperatures in Antarctica being AGW ignores that similar temperatures have occur without AGW.
Who said they couldnt?

Are you kidding?
 
Not at all; it's very simple. Yelling and screaming about high temperatures in Antarctica being AGW ignores that similar temperatures have occur without AGW.

Thank you for clarifying -- you did make a fantasy point. I guess you never learned about continental drift in school.
 
Not at all.
Lol. I will go over this slowly


There have been several factors that have changed the temperature of earth in the past


Right mow it AGW BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TELLS US




MY GOD
 
Lol. I will go over this slowly


There have been several factors that have changed the temperature of earth in the past


Right mow it AGW BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TELLS US




MY GOD

He takes the cake for stupidity, doesn't he?
 

Lots of straw men set up. But Carlin also prescribed dealing with the homeless by putting them on golf courses, useless playgrounds for rich non-athletes.
 
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