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Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent

• mkl 2y ago
  > 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square feet—less than a football field. That's ≈ 740 m². > But since then, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly, and a new study shows that mosses, along with some lichen, liverworts and associated algae, have colonized more than 4.6 square miles, an area nearly four times the size of New York’s Central Park. ≈ 12,000,000 m² ≈ 16,000 × 740 m².
• lobito14 2y ago
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  • skhunted 2y ago
    …the secular cult. There is a singular secular cult? Who are the members of it? More interestingly, are you suggesting a person who believes climate change is real can’t also believe in a religion?