After years of stability, Antarctica is losing ice.

No_Eponym, 3 months ago

Alright stop, nuculate and glisten

Ice was stacked in polar suspension

The cold held those glaciers oh so tightly

Too much melt can’t be taken lightly

“Will it ever stop?” Yo, I don’t know

Turn off the gas, or we’ll all go

Climate extreme, global warming is a scandal

Soon both our poles’ll be too hot to handle

Melt, like a slow Hiroshima

It’s killing coastal towns surer than Katrina

Deadly, for all of humanity

COP28 was both late and a banality

Believe it or don’t, the water’s coming your way

Drop carbon emissions, don’t waste a day

There is a real problem, yo, who’ll solve it?

Antarctic melting is apocalyptic shit

Ice-ice-baby!

It’s losing ice-ice-baby!

troyunrau, 3 months ago

To those in climate science, planetary science, or related fields… It was always a question mark about why Antarctica seemed so stable with regard to ice loss while Greenland was melting so quickly. Perhaps it was something as simple as thermal inertia, which needed to be overcome, or some threshold that needed to be passed…