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Antarctica is turning green at an alarming rate, satellite images show
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- cko 2y ago> "Vegetation covered less than 0.4 square miles of the Antarctic Peninsula in 1986 but had reached almost 5 square miles by 2021."
- immibis 2y agoGood. Let's bring it to 100% coverage.
- M95D 2y ago... and build cities for the flood refugees.
- gmuslera 2y agoEverything happening around the poles, that is where the biggest increases in average temperature have happened, should be worrying. When you replace ice/snow (that is good reflecting light and heat from the sun) with something darker like deep ocean water (for floating ice, mostly in the north) or plants (for this case) you are empowering another positive feedback loop towards global warming, accelerating the rate at which the planet as a whole heats up. What is now covered by vegetation is a hint of everything that is happening all around.
- lobito14 2y agoThe green area of Antarctica according to the graph in this link is 12 km². The area of Antarctica is 14,200,000 km², i.e. 0.0008% is green. Seems like a noise data point.
- M95D 2y agoLife has a tendency to grow exponentially...