We are also at the peak of the current solar cycle. We still got a couple of years left of the high before heading back down.
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-a...
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.
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.
Thawing the arctic methane permafrost was a great idea it seems.
It is not that it could trigger a chain reaction resulting in a extinction event or something.
Oh wait, we are already in a extinction event, nevermind.
I think we need to try some form of renewable energy, like hydro power to fix this. First, we flood an area and turn all the biomass into methane... oh wait, that doesn't work either.
Maybe making every vehicle electric and then connecting them to an electric grid powered by natural gas and coal and driving them around for no reason so that tires produce millions of microplastic particles will surely remediate this.
I wonder what else can I do? Certainly working at an office, consuming a bunch of things I don't need, buying imported goods that use excessive packaging, throwing away food all the time, preferring refrigerated food over non-refrigerated food, preferring food that requires vast amounts of water and soil and traveling around the world in planes that have a carbon footprint equivalent to burning my trash for the entire year cannot possibly be good starting points to consider reducing my environmental impact. That would go against my positive self-reassuring mindset that I learned from TikTok.
Ah, but the economists say all those things are related to externalities so it's all good. We need to keep growing the economy and worry about those later. Helping humans become more prosper and multiply more will certainly mitigate the effects of humans becoming more prosper and multiplying. We are the most intelligent species for sure! Doubling our population at shortening intervals is a great idea and totally sustainable, there is nothing possibly wrong with that at all and our economic activities have no connection with what is happening to the environment!
The solution could be Terraforming other planets because we have been successful Marsforming Earth!
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50F = 10C
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 winters in Antarctica somehow being 50 degrees higher than they used to.
Original title: ‘Astonishing’ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal