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"The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could be a record high for the icy continent.
World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis, citing figures from Argentina's national weather service, said the Esperanza base recorded 18.3 degrees C elsius ( 64.9 Fahrenheit) on Thursday—topping the former record of 17.5 degrees tallied in March 2015.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-antarctica-temperature-high.html
Also warmer than expected water under Thwaites Glacier:
"...at the base of the ice on the grounding line, the team found that the water was 2 degrees Celsius above the normal freezing point. [A surprise]
(antarcticglaciers.org/CC BY-NC 4.0)
The team collected seismic and radar measurements, took cores from the seafloor, and used Icefin on five missions – including one intended to get as close as possible to the intersection of the ice and seafloor.
"We saw amazing ice interactions driven by sediments at the line and from the rapid melting from warm ocean water," added Schmidt.
Scientists Grab First Glimpse Deep Underneath Antarctica's Unstable Thwaites Glacier
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This is a big deal.
If the restraining fails this one glacier could do a global sea level rise on the order of 26 inches.
So far we've only had on the order of about 4 inches roughly in my lifetime.
6 times as much would be pretty world changing for major coastal cities like New York. They'd need science fiction movie style sea walls, if even possible. Maybe it could be goodbye to Miami, I wonder.
"The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could be a record high for the icy continent.
World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis, citing figures from Argentina's national weather service, said the Esperanza base recorded 18.3 degrees C elsius ( 64.9 Fahrenheit) on Thursday—topping the former record of 17.5 degrees tallied in March 2015.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-antarctica-temperature-high.html
Also warmer than expected water under Thwaites Glacier:
"...at the base of the ice on the grounding line, the team found that the water was 2 degrees Celsius above the normal freezing point. [A surprise]
The team collected seismic and radar measurements, took cores from the seafloor, and used Icefin on five missions – including one intended to get as close as possible to the intersection of the ice and seafloor.
"We saw amazing ice interactions driven by sediments at the line and from the rapid melting from warm ocean water," added Schmidt.
Scientists Grab First Glimpse Deep Underneath Antarctica's Unstable Thwaites Glacier
!
This is a big deal.
If the restraining fails this one glacier could do a global sea level rise on the order of 26 inches.
So far we've only had on the order of about 4 inches roughly in my lifetime.
6 times as much would be pretty world changing for major coastal cities like New York. They'd need science fiction movie style sea walls, if even possible. Maybe it could be goodbye to Miami, I wonder.