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Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be

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Re: Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be

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In the grand scheme of things, aren't we being overly concerned about a potential blip? I don't want to minimise this, but some people are becoming hysterical, leading to ideas like blocking the sun or taxing everyone to fund various greenwashing vanity projects. Such click-baits don't help.

To me, "click bait" implies that the article is less interesting than the headline, especially when the headline is misleading. That's not the case here. The headline is a simple fact, and the context justifies it.

As the article points out, this "blip" is less than another data point two years ago. At some point you have to stop pretending you don't see a pattern.

We don't need green washing vanity projects. We need a national and global plan to reduce fossil fuel use. Fast. Faster than it would have been if we'd started decades ago, when both theory and data were already evident, and people started dismissing everything as a "blip" rather than do something.

We can't get anything done while large numbers of people keep denying the basic reality of the data and the basic chemistry and physics that explains it.

Re: Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be

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The editorialized title "Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be" is extremely misleading. The "winter" is not 50 degF hotter than "it used to be", portions of East Antarctica are "up to" 50 degF hotter right now than they usually are versus the same time in a reference year. This is a heat wave, which is probably related to climate change, and is worrying of course, but it's not the same as the wint…

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Re: Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be

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A record-breaking heat wave unfolding at what should be the coldest time in Earth’s coldest place has scientists concerned about what it could mean for the future health of the Antarctic continent, and the consequences it could inflict for millions of people across the globe.

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