@CelloMomOnCars How many more will break off, with apparently no one in the media noticing or reporting?
Perhaps this would get more public awareness as an alternative to sports betting, the odds in which section of the ice shelf and when it would break off could be subject to betting.
At least then the public would realize that they’re betting on their future by not doing anything about climate change.
@CelloMomOnCars Sea ice stabilizes the land ice behind it. Meaning that collapsing ice shelfs can have dramatic effects on sea level rise when the glaciers behind them mobilize themselves.
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
"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."
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If you’re househunting in a coastal area it’s a good idea to look up the address (or neighborhood, access road, key infrastructure, etc.) on Google Earth, which shows the location’s elevation. The most severe climate models show #SeaLevelRise of about 60 ft / 18 m, so look for places higher than that (and prepare to help the millions below that).
"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"
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."
"#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."