I wanted to learn more so i went looking for an article. Heres a pretty good write up. https://www.sciencealert.com/flowers-are-spreading-in-antarctica-as-summer-temperatures-soar
TLDR: Lots of flowering plants, moss and algae spreading. In March, temperatures near the south pole reached 39 °C above normal for three days in a row, hitting a peak of -10 °C (14 °F). Warm enough for researchers to walk around in shorts and shirtless…In Antarctica. Yeah were fucked.
I had hoped you just missed a decimal point but it seems you did not.
I’ve lived on the coast of Australia most of my life, but I moved a good couple of hundred kilometres inland last year. I’m really looking forward to having waterfront property again pretty soon.
Hell, it’s already too hot for human habitation here most of the year. I might as well enjoy the view before I croak.
I find it hilarious that they’re like “It’s 14F! Break out the shorts and T-shirts!” Meanwhile anyone anywhere else (except the Arctic regions) is like “This is pretty fucking cold”.
It likely feels warmer. Antarctica is almost entirely desert. The “dry heat” argument works for cold, too.
I’ve been outside in a t-shirt and jeans in northern Greenland (also polar desert) when it was below freezing and was completely comfortable. I could have hung around out there all day if the day wasn’t four months long. I like the cold and I’ve got extra mass to keep me warm, though.
I suspect the sunshine bouncing off all the snow helps too
I got cooked while snow skiing once that way
snow skiing
I just have to ask why you would feel the need to specify the snow?To distinguish between frozen and unfrozen water
Thule?
Yep.
I left not too long ago, it’s gotten significantly warmer. Rained every week of summer. I think it hit 60 one day. The tow is closed because the permafrost underneath shifted and the building is cracking in half. Also they finally renamed it to Pituffik.
Oh, holy shit. They normally leave the foundation vents open on the buildings in the winter and close them in the spring to make sure the permafrost stays frozen.
One of my coworkers (who loves going to Thule) is a major climate change denier. Wonder how he’ll spin that when we go back in a couple years.
“The tow” isn’t ringing bells - what’s that again?
The tow was (rip) the bar. That’s wild, you can literally see the change happening in real time. If you guys do work on the radar regularly we’ve probably met haha, small world.
Damn researchers walking around in shirts at -10°C??
These are people who willingly choose to live in Antarctica for entire seasons or even years… Yes, I’m sure the overwintering crew would go out in shorts when it gets up to -10°C. I would lol.
What flowers? New species or one that crossed the ocean?
Some seeds are carried place to place on the winds. They probably came from Australia or southern Chile or Argentina or some such place.
From the article:
Flowering plants in the Antarctic region are rapidly expanding, scientists say, indicating the continuing effects of climate change on the continent. The findings suggest we may have reached a tipping point in this fragile, remote ecosystem.
A new study of this plant expansion looked at the two flowering plants native to Antarctica, Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis. Researchers measured the growth and expansion of these plants on a small subantarctic island called Signy Island from 2009 to 2019.
Ok just wondering if it was some long frozen plantlife that just thawed out recently.
Nah just two full months earlier than it should have happened
It’s joever
so what are you fellas gonna do after the water wars?
After? Probably still be corpsing. I just hope I can take some rich fucks with me before I go.
Haggle.
raiders can have a little pillage as a treat
Probably going to be dead after few days of war starting.
Dunno, but im going to start collecting books
I plan to volunteer with a corporation in the bio wars after that!
After??? Are you all planning on surviving the after wars? I’ll probably be taken out by a rusty nail after medical breaks down.
I guess I need to stop being scared to get my bad teeth pulled.
Might have to do it the old fashioned way if I don’t do it now, that is if I survive it.
My god I’m miserable. What kind of coward is more frightened of dentists than this hell?
You’re not cowardly for fearing dentists. The medical industry is one of the reasons why society broke down.
I’d be dead pretty quick without insulin assuming adhd doesn’t kill me first
Right? My RA won’t kill me without meds, but I’ll wish it would. Now my regular infections and allergic reaction on the other hand…
My migraine won’t kill me either, but being completely knocked out every five or so days isn’t going to do me much good either.
Migraines are awful. The headache isn’t even the worst part sometimes. My honest sympathies.
As someone with t1, I’d just die in 3-4 days without medication. It’s like a handy auto-self destruct.
There’s people who see the world all lowering birth rates and predicting a heavily geriatric global population in 50 years time, and who are already starting the “live life, suicide by 60” death cult mentality. The water wars would just kill even more young people, so I’m afraid this death cult thing is going to be more fact than fiction.
Time to start canning the dryland.
They’ve been doing that for a decade
Yeah pretty sure flowers would have already had to have been there to be blooming. Not a lot of birds migrating to Antarctica spreading seeds.
What about African swallows?
Fuck yeah let’s go heat death
If this shit wakes Cthulhu or any of the shaggoths imma be pissed
I know Shaggy, but who are the other Shaggoths ?
They were unwitting slaves to the Elder Things until they got fed up and whipped their asses one day
That’s not entirely our fault, it is of course in part because of global warming, but there was a volcano that erupted that punched a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica
Important notice: Fossil fuel companies have shifted the narrive they push from “climate change isn’t real” to “climate change is real but there’s nothing we can do about it”. We can absolutely do something about it: fight it like the existential threat that it is. Whatever power you can levy in life whether at home, at work, at the voting booth, with your investments, or in the streets: use it.
A reminder for context: it’s not summer yet in Antarctica. Summer doesn’t start until December. It’s still supposed to be cold.
instead of adding ice this winter, they lost ice. during antarctic winter.
This is literal fake news. Climate change is certainly a thing. Flowers blooming in Antarctica currently is not. Careful about spreading lies if we clothe the truth(climate change) in lies dumb people will think its all lies.
This is literal fake news. Climate change is certainly a thing. Flowers blooming in Antarctica currently is not.
Uhm, your own source says differently though?
While a 2022 study did find a global warming-related expansion in the range of two Antarctic flowering plants, the photo does not show those plant species.
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What does that mean?
I found this: “With its plug still intact but threatened by warm water upwelling, the Ice Tongue prevents the majority of West Antarctica land and undersea ice from collapse and seabed displacement, respectively. The changes are profound and terrifying. The land-fast ice is gone in front of PIG and Thwaites before the melt season begins. This is not going to end well.”
Embrace the Antarctic flower blooming!
