So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
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Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#12So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
I'd argue that such event is the consequences.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#13So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#14So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#15So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Nobody really knows, and it's too late to do anything real about it. Fun times.
Your comment sounds like on of the stages of the "four stage strategy" from Yes Minister:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
originally about why the UK doesn't help foreign nations in an inconvenient crisis.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#16So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#17So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Nobody really knows, and it's too late to do anything real about it. Fun times.
You are wrong, it's not too late to change how we behave regarding climate and such way of thinking is unlikely to induce the required actions.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#18> This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system While this is more about weather than climate it shows how much is still left to be understood.
> Temperatures are known to vary wildly over Antarctica, and massive swings are common. Contrasting with this warm spell over eastern Antarctica, the South Pole observed just observed its coldest April to September period on record last year, with an average temperature of minus-78 degrees (minus-61 Celsius).
But to be sure "The heat dome was exceptionally intense, five standard deviations above normal" is nuts.
We should rename Antarctica to something like "Crazy continent".
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#19So what will be the consequences of this? Article makes it clear this is not normal, but doesn't really say much else.
Re: Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
#20> This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system While this is more about weather than climate it shows how much is still left to be understood.
I found it a bit clickbaity. The title is correct to the letter but not really to the spirit, because down at the bottom there is: > Temperatures are known to vary wildly over Antarctica, and massive swings are common. Contrasting with this warm spell over eastern Antarctica, the South Pole observed just observed its coldest April to September period on record last year, with an average temperature of minus-78 degree…
To me it sounds like a realization that climate changes will have drastic and possibly chaotic effects.