At the poles, more heat radiates out into space than is absorbed from the sun.
Rocket Lab launches NASA cubesat to study heat lost from Earth's poles
"The PREFIRE duo "will criss-cross over the #Arctic and #Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make #climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by #GlobalWarming," Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description."
April 25 is #WorldPenguinDay so enjoy some Adélie penguins! ⠀
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This handsome couple, two Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), common to all the Antarctic coasts, are hand printed in black ink with a hint of orange on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 12.5” x 9.25” (31.8 cm x 23.5cm). Adélie penguins are the most widely spread and southernly penguins (along with the Emperor penguins).⠀
⠀ #linocut#AdéliePenguin#printmaking#Antarctica#reliefPrint#printmaker#MastoArt
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
I really hope the world survives — mostly because, if archaeologists of a future civilization had to discover us, they would not believe what they found.
"So you are saying, they had a president who was doing reasonably well, but his political rival offered a dictatorship with fewer women's rights and less healthcare… and the election was a tossup??!?! Come on… Do your analysis again Indiana, because clearly, you have gotten it wrong!"
@randahl You have one candidate who is stabilizing a struggling, inflationary economy & containing or preventing wars on every continent (save #Antarctica 🇦🇶).
The other candidate cheats on his taxes & wives, parties with child predators, desires absolute power & loyalty, enjoys cruelty & wants to abandon military alliances, which would result in World War C (C for Chaos).
An angry man who goes by the name of #DonaldTrump.
"There is now a real danger that some significant #SeaLevelRise will occur in the next few decades as the ice sheets and glaciers of west #Antarctica continue to shrink. These are being eroded at their bases by warming ocean water and could disintegrate in a few decades."
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
🔴 A new study published by #Utrecht University in the #Netherlands warns that the “conveyor belt of the ocean” is approaching a tipping point due to #climatechange that would result in major environmental changes which would affect millions of people ⏩
↪ The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC is a major system of currents throughout the #AtlanticOcean, spanning from the #LabradorSea just south of #Greenland, to the Southern Ocean near #Antarctica. It works by transporting large masses of warm water north at the surface of the ocean and moving cooler water south toward the bottom of the ocean.
"#Penguins on #Antarctica may not have much immunity to the disease, since the virus has not been documented on the continent until now. Outbreaks among penguins in South America and Africa show their vulnerability. The birds, which like to waddle together in packed colonies, are not particularly good at social distancing."