- cross-posted to:
- climate@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- climate@kbin.social
Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
Yeah, that wording is clunky. I guess, according to the article, the ice is known to melt and return in a cyclical pattern every year. This year almost a million square miles of ice did not form as expected.
Take a look at this chart
to see how much less ice there is than usual
Wow that’s crazy
Cropped Y axis exaggerates it a bit, but it’s still a fair deficit.
The whole article is a bit clunky to read.
“The word ‘unprecedented’ gets thrown around a lot…” Are you trying to reach a minimum word count?
Ha, I definitely recall writing sentences like that in school.