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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Temperatures in eastern Antarctica are 70 degrees warmer than usual
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Temperatures in eastern Antarctica are 70 degrees warmer than usual By Sarakshi Rai - 03/18/22 06:28 PM EDT Eastern Antarctica on Friday recorded temperatures that are 70 degrees higher than normal for this time of the year, The Washington Post reported. Temperatures in the eastern part of the continent have soared 50 to 90 degrees above normal, raising concern from the scientific community. The Post reported that instead of temperatures being between minus 50 and minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit, they’ve been closer to zero or 10 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered to be a massive heat wave by Antarctic standards. According to a popular weather twitter account Extreme Temps, "extraordinary anomalies in Antarctica" have lead to historic records on Friday. Extraordinary anomalies in #Antarctica lead to historic records today: -Vostok 3489m -17.7C,monthly record beaten by nearly 15C ! -Concordia 3234m -12.2C,highest Temp. on records and about 40C above average ! -Dome C II 3250m -10.1C -D-47 1560m -3.3C -Terra Nova Base 74S +7.0C pic.twitter.com/w6Ry4Dy4wz — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 18, 2022 "In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values above -30°C were never observed," climate journalist Stefano Di Battista told the news outlet in an email. A researcher studying polar meteorology at the Université Grenoble Alpes Dr. Jonathan Wille also tweeted that this heatwave was "never supposed to happen." And there it is, Concordia broke its all time record temperature by 1.5 °C. This is when temperatures should be rapidly falling since the summer solstice in December. This is a Pacific Northwest 2021 heat wave kind of event. Never supposed to happen. https://t.co/VOW70Ioshv — Dr. Jonathan Wille (@JonathanWille) March 18, 2022 March marks the beginning of autumn in Antarctica, when temperatures usually tend to fall, The Post noted. Willie tweeted that the warmer than usual conditions over Antarctica were caused by an extreme weather system. "[T]his is not something we’ve seen before,” he said. “This moisture is the reason why the temperatures have gotten just so high," he told The Post. |
17975
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: It's late summer and still below freezing there(NT)
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17979
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Something is up with Earth's north & south poles, things are NOT okay
URL: https://futurism.com/the-byte/north-south-pole-warming-earth
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/north-south-pole-warming-earth SOMETHING IS UP WITH EARTH’S NORTH AND SOUTH POLES THINGS ARE NOT OKAY. At Both Ends Hey, is anybody available to check on the two of the coldest places on Earth? Because it’s pretty clear they’re going through… something. In the last week alone the Washington Post reported that temperatures in Eastern Antarctica could have soared as much as 90 degrees warmer than usual. The national pub also reported that a “bomb cyclone” could bring Arctic temperatures near the melting point as they soared 50 degrees above normal this weekend. That’s right — both of Earth’s poles are experiencing what experts are calling unprecedented warming at the same time. “It is impossible, we would have said until two days ago,” said Antarctic climatology researcher and journalist Stefano Battista on Twitter Friday, pictured below.(see image at top of page) According to the Post, temperatures have been closer to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, much hotter that the usual minus-50 or minus-60 degrees. That’s especially scary since the continent is entering autumn and losing 25 minutes of sunlight every day. The warming was caused by warm air and moisture in the atmosphere, in similar fashion to the separate cyclone’s effects on the Arctic. Although the Post reports that the region is still in the six-month-long “polar night” temperatures over the weekend could hit 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Speak Now Or… How many times have you heard “Speak now or forever hold your peace” at a wedding? It applies here too. It’s true that things are bad. Remarkably so, in fact, in terms of climate change. But you know what it isn’t? A lost cause. Claiming otherwise isn’t helpful and would be better left unsaid. Even back in 2019, Forbes was reporting that apocalyptic claims about climate change are wrong. They also discourage people from acting at a time when Earth needs it most. Although some ne’er do wells on social media might have you think otherwise, there’s still time to act and positively impact the environment and climate change. We just need to do it now. |
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17977
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: both poles are melting at the same time
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seriously? "Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. Weather stations in Antarctica shattered records Friday as the region neared autumn. The two-mile high (3,234 meters) Concordia station was at 10 degrees (-12.2 degrees Celsius),which is about 70 degrees warmer than average, while the even higher Vostok station hit a shade above 0 degrees (-17.7 degrees Celsius), beating its all-time record by about 27 degrees (15 degrees Celsius), according to a tweet from extreme weather record tracker Maximiliano Herrera. The coastal Terra Nova Base was far above freezing at 44.6 degrees (7 degrees Celsius). It caught officials at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, by surprise because they were paying attention to the Arctic where it was 50 degrees warmer than average and areas around the North Pole were nearing or at the melting point, which is really unusual for mid- March, said center ice scientist Walt Meier. “They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time,” Meier told The Associated Press Friday evening. “It’s definitely an unusual occurrence.” “It’s pretty stunning,” Meier added. “Wow. I have never seen anything like this in the Antarctic,” said University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who returned recently from an expedition to the continent. “Not a good sign when you see that sort of thing happen,” said University of Wisconsin meteorologist Matthew Lazzara. Lazzara monitors temperatures at East Antarctica’s Dome C-ii and logged 14 degrees (-10 degrees Celsius) Friday, where the normal is -45 degrees (-43 degrees Celsius): “That’s a temperature that you should see in January, not March. January is summer there. That’s dramatic.” Both Lazzara and Meier said what happened in Antarctica is probably just a random weather event and not a sign of climate change. But if it happens again or repeatedly then it might be something to worry about and part of global warming, they said. The Antarctic warm spell was first reported by The Washington Post. The Antarctic continent as a whole on Friday was about 8.6 degrees (4.8 degrees Celsius) warmer than a baseline temperature between 1979 and 2000, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, based on U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather models. That 8- degree heating over an already warmed-up average is unusual, think of it as if the entire United States was 8 degrees hotter than normal, Meier said. At the same time, on Friday the Arctic as a whole was 6 degrees (3.3 degrees) warmer than the 1979 to 2000 average. By comparison, the world as a whole was only 1.1 degrees (0.6 degrees Celsius) above the 1979 to 2000 average. Globally the 1979 to 2000 average is about half a degree (.3 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 20th century average. What makes the Antarctic warming really weird is that the southern continent — except for its vulnerable peninsula which is warming quickly and losing ice rapidly — has not been warming much, especially when compared to the rest of the globe, Meier said. Antarctica did set a record for the lowest summer sea ice — records go back to 1979 — with it shrinking to 741,000 square miles (1.9 million square kilometers) in late February, the snow and ice data center reported. What likely happened was “a big atmospheric river” pumped in warm and moist air from the Pacific southward, Meier said. And in the Arctic, which has been warming two to three times faster than the rest of the globe and is considered vulnerable to climate change, warm Atlantic air was coming north off the coast of Greenland." |
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17976
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's late summer and still below freezing there(NT)
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17974
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: we were told about this feb 16
URL: http://www.earthboppin.net/talkshop/cbibrel/messages/23524.html
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Children, I speak to you so that you may constantly exercise foresight: the madness of men of power is extreme. They do not analyze consequences, but allow themselves to act on impulse so that their desires would be fulfilled. An attack on a leader will become known: a groundless attack, and this will cause fire to fall upon the earth. My children: In its extreme emanation of streams of fire, the sun will emit great heat towards the earth. You will see nature dry up in the midst of extreme heat. Man will feel unable to remain on earth. |
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