Op-Ed: Antarctica temperature up 38.5C — Unexpected rise is game-changer

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Antarctica: — © AFP

The average temperature on the east Antarctic plateau broke records for the largest single increase in meteorological history. This happened in March 2022, and it’s just now making headlines outside the usual ballparks.

Why so long, you may ask? Because that sort of very disparate data takes some processing. You have to put a seasonal spike in context with other weather patterns. You need to have a bigger picture to understand a local event. This data is not easy reading. Other related information doesn’t exactly reassure the readers much either.

The news is less than effervescent. Seems that hotter winds from Australia are now reaching Antarctica. The shift in wind patterns has created an entry point for those winds to Antarctica.

The net takeaway from this not-very-inspiring bit of information is that the risk of high-volume melts increases with temperature. Arguably less thrilling is the calculation of melt is complex. The more ice melt, the faster the degradation of the mass of ice.

If you remember the constant surprises at the rate of Greenland ice melt, it was because the compound effect of melting ice was very hard to calculate. Greenland’s glaciers are now melting at five times their previous rate. Get the picture about calculation issues?  

There are other indicators of significant change, too. Thousands of penguins are suspected to have died of bird flu. This is a biological intrusion in direct contrast to the norm since the Ice Age.

There are also flowers blooming in Antarctica. The continent hasn’t been able to support vegetation since the Ice Age, either. It’s even projected that coastal species could survive in Antarctica in future.

Let’s get philosophical. Let us flutter to the flowers of imbecility. Let us adopt the demure, quaint, and wholesome nature of heavily scripted online influencers and other media filth.

Or maybe not.

Down here in Australia, right next to Antarctica, we have a slightly different perspective. We’ve been watching icebergs the size of Luxembourg sail past for quite a while.

We find it odd that strangely peasant-like corporate and political shillbillies, institutional morons, and their cretinous criminal associates don’t think there’s a climate problem.

Note: If you believe these guys capable of thought of any kind, you may wish to seek help or at least start digging a burrow.

We’ve done 20 years of this non-problem. It’s amazingly destructive and expensive for something that isn’t a problem. This is constant. In Sydney, we just got a massive dump of nearly 200% of the monthly average rain that did plenty of damage. We had consecutive major floods last year. In the previous drought, the only place kids in the rural areas could see the color green was on their phones. Then there were those nice fires that incinerated the continent. …And so on.

No problem? You don’t @#$#@#$# say, you @#$#@ ancestrally deficient %^%$^  self-worshipping Kleenexes, you.

Get this straight, corporate, political, and related trash. When we say there’s a problem, it means there IS a problem.

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