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Tango0125 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…"

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Personal logo Tacitus Supporting Member of TMP25 Apr 2017 2:36 p.m. PST

I am depressed.

goragrad25 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?

Mithmee25 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 Caribe26 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)! :)

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I say adapt or die:

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Global warming fanatics should volunteer and be first in line for the first gill transplants.

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Col Durnford26 Apr 2017 8:37 a.m. PST

It's all because of the shoggoth reactor leak!!!!!

Tango0126 Apr 2017 1:10 p.m. PST

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!


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Martin From Canada26 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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