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Sea ice breaking away.
EDIT: This is a seasonal event and not a sign of the end of days. There's already new ice forming in Winter Quarters Bay.
Mar 18, 2017 12:03 AM
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EDIT: This is a seasonal event and not a sign of the end of days. There's already new ice forming in Winter Quarters Bay.
lostharbinger42
Why didn't you help the people at U.S. Outpost #31?! All those needless deaths.
geiokami
I'd prefer to see it in real time
mikeolinzock
Where's that guy smiling about warm weather in December?
inelastic
Smallbrownrabbit
Are you having a fun time @OP ? By god McMurdo is ugly. Say hello to a penguin for me.
IceFireXD
At first, I was like "huh... that's cool"... Then all of a sudden, it was "WHOA!".
SleepyKitten
Let it go! Let it go!
coleium
I thought those were clouds.
DuckThatBarks
Al Gore just got major wood.
WinchesterTavern
I think I saw this place in a documentary!
lestatgaming
That left faster than my hopes and dreams
Rotholia
Just face it, the earth is doomed, and the only thing people will do is either nothing, or only tell others, not act upon it.
housefriedricenoshrimp
Earth is going to be fine; people are doomed.
butmahitsjustmebooo
This happens every year when the season changes to summer.
AmericanPockets
:,(
butmahitsjustmebooo
It's changing seasons, chill.
AmericanPockets
Maybe I prefer winter to summer. So yes I will chill
Adelative
but does it come back?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yes, in a few months.
samsonguy920
Just typical ice migration. They go up to the Arctic to breed there...keeping the gene pool fresh, you know. Then they come back with >
samsonguy920
> some of the kids, swap photos with the guys at the station. It's a pretty chill experience.
Procrastinatinglikeaboss
I feel weird upvoting that.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
You're upvoting OP's post to show appreciation for it, not the thing portrayed.
CainsCurse
Its a seasonal thing, theres already new ice forming out there, dont worry.
CainsCurse
I mean, dont not worry either.
KarlaAnne
So. I'm gonna go ahead and assume this was time lapsed. Otherwise - HOLY SHIT
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Look at the shadows.
puck2dag
SublimeMacrocosmicMalevolence
If someone reversed this video and used it as "proof" that global warming isn't a thing, wonder how many would actually believe it
rustttt
There's no 14th month tho
MargaretTiger
This seems like a bad thing . . .
CaptainMcFloaty
It is summer in Antarctica right now
peterm762
The ice breaker comes in and cuts a path for supply ship. I hear the ice tends to go out pretty quick after the ice breaker comes through.
Popspoppingit
Not inherently. the potential alternative is the entire world is covered in ice. This of course depends on if its in a normal place/pattern
InJenius
Its not a matter of if it's normal, its a matter of how fast we are helping it along
Ivanaski
Does this mean we're going to die?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Sure we all will, but this here is just a seasonal event.
oo0ORB0oo
Don't let Leo see this. He thought a Chinook in Western Alberta was climate change.
IAmAHollow
People, when climatologists talk of global climate change and ice melting, this is not what they mean...These thin sheets are not even a 1/?
IAmAHollow
Drop in the bucket, besides that fact that they're seasonal. When they say glaciers are melting, they mean towering cliffs of solid ice 2/?
IAmAHollow
Spanning many kilometers across, farther than the eye can see, melting and slipping off into the oceans. Enormous valleys of ice hundreds3/?
IAmAHollow
Of meters deep melting in the ocean for the first time in the human era. It's bad on a very large scale 4/4
gingerbrdman
Is this seasonal or Ragnarok?
HEXADECIMAL
What would be devastating would be entering a global cooling phase where ice expanded lowering crop yields, increasing starvation and death.
IAmAHollow
Warming is bad too, rising the ocean levels and flooding many major cities potentially killing millions of people.
HEXADECIMAL
During the dinosaur era, there was little to no ice across the earth and 10x the amount of jungle, so we're actually entering a greening.
gingerbrdman
I've heard estimates that the Sahara will gain a ridiculous amount of farmable land but that's directly at the cost of ocean front property
gingerbrdman
and entire island nations. Not the best imaginable version of the future.
ProgeriaProstitutes
But the Sahara is growing right now.
gingerbrdman
Confused. Do you mean the desert is expanding (and remains arid)? Or that the farmable area is increasing without coasts being endagered?
DestroYersul
I had an idea for a D&D campaign where a desert was expanding and would eventually cover the world unless the PCs stopped it.
ProgeriaProstitutes
The desert is expanding
nolandahoy
"Clearly humans can't cause this, I don't see any people out there breaking up that ice!" - American Republicans
Popspoppingit
Well that would assume that someone blames this on man entirely, which not all ice breaking up is.
housefriedricenoshrimp
That's a dumb thing to say, and you should feel dumb for saying it.
dogneely
Just like when our ancestors ended the ice age when they discovered fire. everyone knows the earth's climate can only change cause of humans
PenisOfDeath
Yes and I'm pretty sure all the toxins that get pumped into the atmosphere and the environment is perfectly fine too.
dogneely
It certainly doesn't help
BluBoxx
That's not an argument against people's green house gas emissions driving present warming....
nolandahoy
A few points: First, I said "cause this" not "cause climate change". There is evidence of long term oscillatory patterns of Earth's (1/?)
nolandahoy
atmospheric greenhouse gas content, however, statistics show an exponential spike since we began burning fossil fuels. If we consider (2/?)
nolandahoy
that Artic ice levels are decreasing at a much faster rate than Antarctica ice levels are increasing, and that this is happening much (3/?)
nolandahoy
faster than any typical oscillation, then we can directly see our impact on our climate. Next, frigid winds in the southern ocean (4/?)
nolandahoy
have increased 15-20%. These winds and seasonal temperature changes can break up the"sea-ice", pushing it away from the coastline, (5/?)
TwistMyNipples
But saying humans are causing climate change is wrong, climate change is always happening... we're just speeding it up a little.
MoistenedAnus
More like 140x
DJNinja
Funny what a 2% difference can do.
BluBoxx
We're not speeding it up (naturally we should be cooling). We've completely reversed natural trends and replaced them with warming.
TwistMyNipples
So we're speeding it up backwards
BluBoxx
It would never happen under Quaternary conditions with out human activity. We're pushing the global climate to a state we havent seen before
TwistMyNipples
Exceeding expectationsis only a good thing when I'm not doing it.
qoter678
As someone who was at mcmurdo less than a month ago this is totally normal. Beach front property now.
regularjerry
What happened with Buzz Aldrin?
peterm762
My guess. Altitude. South pole is at 10500 ft pressure. Put me on my butt when I got there. Get a little cold with that and boom.
ChurrMcChurrson
You there same time as Webster Drilling?
reid2048
You should make a post about your experiences there, I think imgur would love to hear about the things that go down in Antarctica.
SlagathorDeb
Absolutely! Did you run into Childs or McCready? If it was Mac, you're ok in my book. If Childs, well...we haven't got much time left.
qoter678
So hard to explain. Easiest way to explain is it's college but instead of class you work...alot
DJNinja
Well Antarctica for one is down ;)
PlanesAndJets
Seconded! I love stories about this kind of stuff.
iamalreadyaghost
You gotta do it now
lLikeTurtles
How cold is it there?
klingonrepairship
I wintered over at the south pole a couple years ago. It got down it -109F. It was cold.
qoter678
At the pole yes it gets cold. At mcmurdo it wasn't too bad, this summer around 20s
TheHappyCanadian
hella
AstralBeast808
Hi.
lLikeTurtles
Bonjour!!!
CainsCurse
Currently 0F with a wind chill of -16F. Wind gusting to 25 knots per my weather channel.
lLikeTurtles
Sooo much burr. Wow.
CainsCurse
Its really not terrible for short periods but it will get worse. This time of year theres not too many people working outside either.
lLikeTurtles
And I complain about my 20in of snow in my driveway.
AlexanderGibson
How would i get to a place like that? I want so badly to go to that part of the world. I would do anything to experience that part of world
69420
You go to there.
TheAnnexationOfPuertoRico
NipplesInAJar
Slagathor91
Where do you keep your jar of nipples?
NipplesInAJar
Inside a safe beside my bed. I change the combination every day.