Record winter heat in Antarctica is worrying scientists
www.euronews.com
The new heat record comes amid a prolonged heatwave that has seen maximum daily temperatures above zero degrees for three consecutive weeks.

A brief excerpt from the article:

Temperatures in the Antarctic reached a high of 15.4C on 6 June, UK newspaper The Guardian reports. The data was logged by the Argentinian Esperanza base on the Trinity peninsula.

That’s about 59.7F at that base for those that need the conversion, the previous record was 2C [35.6F] 13.4C [56.1F] at that station.

EDITs 1 & 2: I misread so typed the wrong thing, I have fixed it now.

  • pulsewidth
    47·
    3 days ago

    The elephant in the room is that if Antarctica’s ice cover entirely melts, ocean levels worldwide will rise by about 60m.

    Scientists don’t currently believe this will happen anytime soon, predicting between 60cm and 1m by the year 2100, but they also keep saying things like:

    [this heat in Antarctica is] "absolutely crazy”.

    “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly".

    • disorderly
      27·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, it’s been a long time since I studied the various ice shelves in Antarctica, but what I remember is that a mechanical failure on pretty much every identified coastal fault line had a corresponding global sea level rise in the tens of cm over just a handful of years.

      If you’re under 50, you’re gonna see tens of millions of people get displaced. This is going to create some incredible pinch points all over the Earth. It’s not entirely our fault but it’s 100% our problem.

      • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        Meanwhile lets increase our global energy consumption with a couple of hundred percent for the sake of AI datacenters. It is extremely important we let our trillionaire oligarchs suck out some more stock value before we all drown.

        • errerEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          That’s ok we have a plan for that: we’ll murder them!

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
      6·
      2 days ago

      Scientists don’t currently believe this will happen anytime soon

      According to the most conservative (translation: least disastrous looking) estimates. Anything else has problems getting published.

      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-predictions-prove-too-conservative/

      Old article from 2012 but this was already a problem then. More so now, that “”“climate skeptics”“” are louder than ever (and occupying government positions)