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

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      Right now, it’s winter in the southern hemisphere. Sea ice should be expanding around Antarctica, but it’s doing so much less than previous years. It’s so bad there’s a chance there won’t be any sea ice by the time it’s mid summer there, in December/January/February. If that happens, there’s nothing to stop the land glaciers from slipping into the sea and significantly raising sea levels worldwide. Could be like 10 feet of sea level rise depending on what happens. (Thwaites Glacier has been named in many articles as especially precarious and able to contribute 10 feet on its own.)

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    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.

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        The discovery channel was showing ice shelves sloughing off into the ocean in 2011. They made it sound like it’d all melt soon.

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              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.

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    if ice fails to re-freeze, it’s not really ice anymore, is it?

    was this generated by AI or something? such a shit article