"Antarctica is covered in hundreds of meltwater..." Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Apr 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
… rivers and streams, and we had no idea this was happening. "The first continent-wide survey of meltwater on Antarctica found alarmingly high numbers of pools, ponds, channels, rivers, and streams flowing across all sides of the continent. Scientists have always known that the Antarctic Western Peninsula is melting at a very high rate but they didn't expect the whole continent to be awash with meltwater during the ephemeral summer…"
Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Tacitus | 25 Apr 2017 2:36 p.m. PST |
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goragrad | 25 Apr 2017 3:25 p.m. PST |
So their first ever survey finds something unexpected. One wonders why people who have predicted that the world is drastically warming wouldn't have been expecting this. And more importantly why they never surveyed this before? |
Mithmee | 25 Apr 2017 4:47 p.m. PST |
This has more than likely happened many times before. But to certain individuals this is the fore telling of the end of the world. |
Cacique Caribe | 26 Apr 2017 5:28 a.m. PST |
Woohoo! I love it. I'm thinking of buying "beachfront" property somewhere in central Texas (but not too close to "weird" Austin, mind you)! :)
I say adapt or die:
Global warming fanatics should volunteer and be first in line for the first gill transplants. Dan TMP link TMP link |
Col Durnford | 26 Apr 2017 8:37 a.m. PST |
It's all because of the shoggoth reactor leak!!!!! |
Tango01 | 26 Apr 2017 1:10 p.m. PST |
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Amicalement Armand
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Martin From Canada | 26 Apr 2017 1:18 p.m. PST |
So their first ever survey finds something unexpected. One wonders why people who have predicted that the world is drastically warming wouldn't have been expecting this. And more importantly why they never surveyed this before?
The problem is that this is unexpected in the wrong direction, meaning that the models were too conservative. |
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