Re: I am somewhat surprised they have not posted about it
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Chris in Tampa on 3/29/2022, 12:26 am
I didn't know the fires were near to Bob Henson. That region just had the fire in December that destroyed homes around Boulder and that included some of the homes of scientists there.
The Antarctica extreme warming was a brief event and maybe since they had covered some of the longer term warming they didn't get to it.
I do see that Jeff Masters posted a tweet about this evening:
I am interested in some of the thoughts about the short term event. It was getting close to being above freezing. I don't know what areas might have perhaps. But this wasn't the absolute warmest part of the year. I am curious about what an event like this would do in a period where it was the warmest part of the year and if temperatures got significantly above freezing during a warming event like that, even a brief one, what that would mean. It's an extreme outlier as that tweet above shows, but it's rather alarming to me. You hear about something like runaway climate change and while again this was a brief event, and temperatures might not have gotten above freezing anywhere, I just wonder how many more of these we might possibly see over the coming years and decades. (and the potential for it, perhaps to a much lesser extent, during a warmer part of the year) I know there is no way to know, but it's just something I do wish we knew more about. I don't know much of anything about the climate of Antarctica, such as how much ice if any is replenished. If you were to have a significant melt, is there some replenishment? Very little? And then of course there are large pieces of ice breaking off. Snowfall for the year, if any, isn't going to help you there.
In a world with a heck of a lot going on, easy to miss the stuff at the poles. There were headlines for a few days about Antarctica, but then it cooled back down. Didn't really hear anything about what it could mean long term. |
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