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As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.

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[-] driving_crooner 18 points 1 year ago

Argentina-size must be the stupidest measure ever invented. No one even known how really huge Argentina is because the visual map everyone has on their mind is the Mercator projection. Americans would use anything before metric.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

That's about 5.1 France's for our European metric friends.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

In the UK everything always seems to be measured in Essexs.

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Isnt "one Texas" one of the standard nonsense units used in the United states? Why aren't they using that? Or can they only use it when it's 1, 2, 5 or 12 texases and otherwise it's Argentina's?

[-] JWBananas@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well that's terrifying, 1 Argentina is 4 Texases

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Give or take a few Texans ..

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I seem to remember that the asteroid broke up over Russia and was captured on film a while ago was the size of half a giraffe. Or 0.000001 Texas, Texas's, Texai?

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Do we just switch to Texans at that scale? So like 6 Texans?

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I know how big it its, pretty big let me tell ya.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago

Why is the headline written like that?

"Scientists are scrambling to figure out why", we know why it's missing, it's not a mystery.

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I bet it melted

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if that's the same piece as the Western Australia-sized piece reported missing here in Oz :)

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone see The Day After Tomorrow?

[-] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Somebody get then a gopro

Is that the ice chunk that they took to combat climate change in the Simpsons?

[-] Saganastic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I thought that happened in futurama

[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

My first thought was that Argentina took the piece of Antarctica they claimed.

[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Jewish space lasers been busy again, eh?

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