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Missing winter sea-ice signals changes in Antarctica that could be "absolute disaster for the world", scientists say.

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, large-scale systems change slowly due to inertia and the distances involved. Unless you introduce extreme amounts of energy like the dinosaur killing meteor.

Even then it's happening ridiculously fast considering changes of this scale typically happen over tens of thousands of years at least.

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