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Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice
(futurism.com)
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"Chunk of ice", "failing to refreeze"
Wut?
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.