Record-Shattering Heat at Both Poles Is Freaking Scientists Out

[pecksniff]

Story.

Unusually warm temperatures broke several records in both Antarctica and the Arctic late last week. The Concordia research base in Eastern Antarctica, one of the most remote research facilities in the world, reported temperatures at around -11 degrees Celsius or about 11 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 70 degrees Fahrenheit higher than usual on the icy continent.

Over at the North Pole, temperatures reached new heights at around the same time. According to tweets from a climate scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute the mercury hit around 3.9 degrees Celsius, or 39 about degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 50 degrees F (30 degrees C) higher than normal, not to mention higher than the point at which ice melts.

Université Grenoble Alpes post doc researcher Jonathan Wille tweeted that, at around this time of the year, temperatures are supposed to be falling in Antarctica, especially after the South Pole’s summer solstice has already passed and days start to become noticeably shorter. “This is [like] a Pacific Northwest 2021 heatwave kind of event,” he tweeted. “Never supposed to happen.”

Researchers told the Associated Press that the temperature spikes can’t always be attributed to the climate crisis—yet. Zachary Labe, a climate scientist at Colorado State University who specializes in studying the Arctic, explained that some factors in both warming events are regular occurrences, while other factors are connected to climate change.

“These plumes of moisture and heat that move into the Arctic and Antarctic…that’s a normal mechanism,” Labe told Earther. “These events were particularly extreme, and they happened at the same time, which could be just by chance, because they’re in completely different hemispheres.”

 

[WillJ8787]

Story.

Yep, I wish I didn't believe it is too late and it probably is....what will come is going to make our two years of covid craziness look like a fun party.

Hopefully, smart folks will rise the the occasion and provide us all some solutions.

 

[pecksniff]

Yep, I wish I didn't believe it is too late and it probably is....what will come is going to make our two years of covid craziness look like a fun party.

Hopefully, smart folks will rise the the occasion and provide us all some solutions.

They have. But the solutions are not politically acceptable.

 

[pecksniff]

The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That's only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal.

 

[PaxNurgle]

I would like to see more carbon-capture technology employed, and research to that end. That is, trapping and converting CO2 emissions to a liquid carbon soot solution and water. Plants do this naturally through photosynthesis, so why can't this same chemical process be artificially replicated on a large scale to reduce atmospheric CO2? It's another possible tool in the climate fight that you don't hear too much about.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Uh oh. Canceling my polar vacation plans.

 

[pecksniff]

Uh oh. Canceling my polar vacation plans.

Never mind that! What does this mean for Santa?!

 

[Dribble]

Never mind that! What does this mean for Santa?!

Well I am sure he will have to use the same technology he uses in the tropics and southern hemisphere...duh...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Yep, I wish I didn't believe it is too late and it probably is....what will come is going to make our two years of covid craziness look like a fun party.

Hopefully, smart folks will rise the the occasion and provide us all some solutions.

We've passed the tipping point and our attention should focus on mitigation rather than prevention (of climate change).

 

[pace_purr]

They will be saying the same thing in seventy years,nothing has changed in my life time except the narrative

 

[jaF0]

With any luck I'll be dead long before any of this matters.



Hell, we may all be dead worldwide in a couple of months.

 

[domroger]

I would like to see more carbon-capture technology employed, and research to that end. That is, trapping and converting CO2 emissions to a liquid carbon soot solution and water. Plants do this naturally through photosynthesis, so why can't this same chemical process be artificially replicated on a large scale to reduce atmospheric CO2? It's another possible tool in the climate fight that you don't hear too much about.

Planting more trees would help,there are miles of grass verges along side roads that could be used.

 

[Champakian]

Those "scientists" should have gone into more productive Science.

If they are so brilliant that they can predict the future, then maybe they could
have come up with a better energy technology.

I think they gravitated towards
the easiest degree...

 

[Dribble]

They will be saying the same thing in seventy years,nothing has changed in my life time except the narrative

You don't watch the news then. Not surprising. Stupid people can't see beyond their "narrative "

 

[Champakian]

The OP would have started this thread over record cold temps as proof positive...


When you want it to be so true, so badly, everything justifies your political desires.

 

[ll74]

We've passed the tipping point and our attention should focus on mitigation rather than prevention (of climate change).

It should be about both. There are still prevention measures of differing things that can be created while mitigating existing impact

 

[jomar]

The same cuts the opposite way, of course

 

[pecksniff]

Those "scientists" should have gone into more productive Science.

If they are so brilliant that they can predict the future, then maybe they could
have come up with a better energy technology.

I think they gravitated towards
the easiest degree...

Nobody ever went into climatology for that reason.

 

[pecksniff]

They will be saying the same thing in seventy years,nothing has changed in my life time except the narrative

Extreme weather has changed.

 

[Rightguide]

*YAWN*

 

[pecksniff]

*YAWN*

Nature does not care if you're bored.

 

[Rightguide]

Nature does not care if you're bored.

Nature isn't doing anything out of the ordinary that would send you into a fit of enuresis.

 

[pecksniff]

Nature isn't doing anything out of the ordinary that would send you into a fit of enuresis.

It is -- but not by itself. Climate change is anthropogenic.

 

[pace_purr]

You don't watch the news then. Not surprising. Stupid people can't see beyond their "narrative "

Perhaps you should stop listening to fake news and do some research yourself but not with Google that feeds you the same crap as the media

 

[PaxNurgle]

^"Fake News" huh? Yeah, of course, we should only read "Weekly World News" or watch InfoWars or One America Network or whatever ridiculous propaganda far-right "News" site that Rightguide is always pushing. They'll tell you EXACTLy what you want to hear: that Climate Crisis is all "Liberal Propaganda" enacted by "Socialists" who want to push "Critical Race Theory" to "Destroy America" or whatever the latest nonsense logic of the day is.

The rest of us will listen to fair, credible, unbiased and informed scientists and experts.