Remarkable before-and-after satellite images from NASA show how much ice melted on Antarctica's Eagle Island over a 9-day heat wave earlier this month. reveal that nearly a quarter of an Antarctic island's snow cover melted in that time -- an increasingly common symptom of the climate crisis.
The images show Eagle Island on the northeastern peninsula of the icy continent at the start and end of this month's Antarctic heat wave. By the end of the nine-day heat event, much of the land beneath the island's ice cap was exposed, and pools of meltwater opened up on its surface.earlier this month, peaking at 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit. Los Angeles measured the same temperature that day, NASA said.
In just over a week, 4 inches of Eagle Island's snowpack melted -- that's about 20% of the island's total seasonal snow accumulation, NASA's Earth Observatory said. "I haven't seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica," Mauri Pelto, a geologist at Nichols College in Massachusetts, told NASA's Earth Observatory. "You see these kinds of melt events in Alaska and Greenland, but not usually in Antarctica."
Climate scientist Xavier Fettweis plotted the amount of meltwater that reached the ocean from the Antarctic peninsula. The heat wave was the
Wow....climate change is upon us?....❤️🇨🇦
It’s summer time their now it’s colder than normal. Usually 30% of the snow is gone by now!! Trying to push the climate change Bullsh.t!! Fake news again!
Global warming is such good news. Hope that it finds it way here in Canada.
This story is from fake news CNN. The same outlet that reported Trump will go hungry on his trip to India because they don’t have hamburgers
MSM and armchair experts like AOC and Greta (whateverherlastnameis) already told us that the planet only has 12 years left. So although this melting sucks I guess we can’t do anything at this point. I know, let’s ban plastic fast food restaurant trays! 🤡
Good at this point I hope it’s Armageddon it would at least seasrvyhe liberal bullshit
But but but how come? Manhattan is not even under water...
Volcanoes 🌋 tend to warm thing up a bit. Hmm slow news week.....
More fear mongering. Stop this BS!
Lucky for the critters!
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