Antarctica May Have Just Set Its Highest Temperature On Record
Source: Mashable, written by Andrew Freedman Antarctica, Earth's coldest, most barren continent, may have just set a remarkably unusual weather record. An Argentinian research station on the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula recorded a high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius) on March 24, according to reports from Weather Underground. If this is investigated and verified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it could become the highest temperature on record for the entire continent of Antarctica. The warmth at the Esperanza research station came one day after a nearly identical high temperature was logged at another Argentinean base, known as Base Marambio, also located along the Antarctic Peninsula. Interestingly, the mild conditions occurred during the Antarctic fall, not the height of summer.
Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Thin, Threaten Significant Sea Level Rise
Source: Scientific American, by Andrea Thompson and Climate Central Giant doorstops of ice are melting away Over the past two decades, the massive platforms of floating ice that dot the coast of Antarctica have been thinning and doing so at an increasing rate, likely at least in part because of global warming. Scientists are worried about its implications for significant sea level rise. The ice shelves—some of which are larger than California and tens to hundreds of yards thick—are the linchpins of the Antarctic ice sheet system, holding back the millions of cubic miles of ice contained in the glaciers that flow into them, like doorstops. As the ice sheets thin, the massive rivers of ice behind them can surge forward into the sea. Antarctica holds enough ice, if it all melted, to raise sea levels more than 200 feet. That would take hundreds to thousands of years, but the recent thinning of the ice shelves means that there has already been an increase in the rate of Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise, and it’s accelerating.
Geoengineering, Biological Experimentation, And Government Lies
So many in the science community and in official agencies know about the ongoing highly illegal geoengineering programs, so many are lying about what they know. Climate engineering is the most catastrophic assault ever unleashed on the planet by the human race, it is the greatest untold story in human history. Each and every one of us is needed to focus our efforts and energy on exposing and halting climate engineering once and for all, everything is at stake. Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org