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[jerry113]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-antarctica-temperatures-idUSKBN1684I7

An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.

The Experanza base set the high on March 24, 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said after reviewing data around Antarctica to set benchmarks to help track future global warming and natural variations.

"Verification of maximum and minimum temperatures help us to build up a picture of the weather and climate in one of Earth's final frontiers," said Michael Sparrow, a polar expert with the WMO co-sponsored World Climate Research Programme.

Antarctica locks up 90 percent of the world's fresh water as ice and would raise sea levels by about 60 meters (200 ft) if it were all to melt, meaning scientists are concerned to know even about extremes around the fringes.

The heat record for the broader Antarctic region, defined as anywhere south of 60 degrees latitude, was 19.8°C (67.6°F) on Jan. 30, 1982 on Signy Island in the South Atlantic, it said.

And the warmest temperature recorded on the Antarctic plateau, above 2,500 meters (8,202 feet), was -7.0°C (19.4°F) on Dec. 28, 1980, it said.

Wednesday's WMO report only examined the highs.

The lowest temperature set anywhere on the planet was a numbing -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at the Soviet Union's Vostok station in central Antarctica on July 21, 1983.

 

[Pyrokai]

When can I buy property?

 

[Jigolo]

Damn that's a sad picture

 

[Captain Zyrain]

Will the alien mothership be thawed soon?

 

[Majine]

Still, those penguins slept for awhile...

 

[Frozenprince]

That Montana beach front property I'm gonna have gonna be sweet.

Thanks Trump.

 

[Dreadnought]

We don't deserve this planet

 

[Ac30]

Wouldn't it be incredible if Antarctica becomes the only habitable continent left.

 

[Cyanity]

So the warming in Antarctica is irreversible at this point, isn't it? Kinda glad I live on a hill.

 

[HvySky]

This is so depressing.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

We don't deserve this planet

Cigarette smokers will ruin it. Just give it time.

 

[Syder]

This bothers me on a daily basis.

Why can't we fix this?

 

[Randy Monk]

Hold me Gaf

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Those poor souls at US Outpost 31 died for nothing.

This bothers me on a daily basis.

Why can't we fix this?

 

[Ac30]

This bothers me on a daily basis.

Why can't we fix this?

We can't fix it. We can only limit its effects.

 

[jmdajr]

How soon before Trump's Florida hotel is under water?

 

[UberTag]

This bothers me on a daily basis.

Why can't we fix this?

Humanity is in a permanent "got mine, fuck my kids and your kids and their kids" mindset.
So yeah, there is no fix until we find another Earth to ruin in another galaxy long after we're dead.

 

[Maxinas]

This bothers me on a daily basis.

Why can't we fix this?

"We" (as humans, because i do my part everyday to keep the environment clean), already fucked it up badly, and now all that can be done is too fuck it up less. Sadly there are still people who couldn't give two shits, and will continue to fuck the planet up as they please.

 

[Indicate]

We don't deserve this planet

Or any planet. We'll exploit Mars as much as we can and only the wealthy will see any benefit.

 

[Moppeh]

WON'T SOMEBODY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THINK OF THE PENGUINS

 

[Ac30]

"We" (as humans, because i do my part everyday to keep the environment clean), already fucked it up badly, and now all that can be done is too fuck it up less. Sadly there are still people who couldn't give two shits, and will continue to fuck the planet up as they please.

Problem is the people who do give a shit are powerless. I'm impressed that people my parent's age are willing to fuck it up for their own children. Amazing.

 

[R-User!]

200 ft of water?

Time to move to Colorado Island!

 

[RinsFury]

But the President said climate change isn't real.

We don't deserve to live on this planet. So fucking depressing.

 

[MattKeil]

Humanity is in a permanent "got mine, fuck my kids and your kids and their kids" mindset.
So yeah, there is no fix until we find another Earth to ruin in another galaxy long after we're dead.

It's only ruined for us. The planet and life on it will continue. That's what makes humanity's apparent disinterest in what is literally self-preservation even more tragic.

 

[Nemesis121]

But the President said climate change isn't real.

We don't deserve to live on this planet. So fucking depressing.

Chinese hoax....

 

[TheStruggler]

fake news

its march and im still wearing my winter coat in winnipeg

 

[R-User!]

Don't worry, all the water will fall off the sides of the world if it melts; being that the world is flat of course.

Spoiler

/s just in case it wasn't painfully obvious. :/

 

[onadesertedisland]

Antarctica too hot. The very most hot. Sad.

 

[rekameohs]

Some nice Phoenix beaches

 

[Ryzaki009]

It's only ruined for us. The planet and life on it will continue. That's what makes humanity's apparent disinterest in what is literally self-preservation even more tragic.

Yep that's what I really don't get.

The planet will just laugh restart everything because it really doesn't care about a few million years and we'll be dead.

 

[Bigboss242]

Climate change and antibiotic resistant diseases will take us out soon enough.