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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to learn more so i went looking for an article. Heres a pretty good write up. https://www.sciencealert.com/flowers-are-spreading-in-antarctica-as-summer-temperatures-soar

TLDR: Lots of flowering plants, moss and algae spreading. In March, temperatures near the south pole reached 39 °C above normal for three days in a row, hitting a peak of -10 °C (14 °F). Warm enough for researchers to walk around in shorts and shirtless....In Antarctica. Yeah were fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn researchers walking around in shirts at -10°C??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

These are people who willingly choose to live in Antarctica for entire seasons or even years... Yes, I'm sure the overwintering crew would go out in shorts when it gets up to -10°C. I would lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is literal fake news. Climate change is certainly a thing. Flowers blooming in Antarctica currently is not. Careful about spreading lies if we clothe the truth(climate change) in lies dumb people will think its all lies.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/10/07/false-claim-photo-shows-flowers-blooming-in-antarctica-fact-check/71067338007/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Important notice: Fossil fuel companies have shifted the narrive they push from "climate change isn't real" to "climate change is real but there's nothing we can do about it". We can absolutely do something about it: fight it like the existential threat that it is. Whatever power you can levy in life whether at home, at work, at the voting booth, with your investments, or in the streets: use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

so what are you fellas gonna do after the water wars?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

After???? Are you all planning on surviving the after wars? I’ll probably be taken out by a rusty nail after medical breaks down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah let's go heat death

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well… heat death is a term for the end of the universe. One of my favorite apocalyptic scenarios

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What flowers? New species or one that crossed the ocean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some seeds are carried place to place on the winds. They probably came from Australia or southern Chile or Argentina or some such place.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Embrace the Antarctic flower blooming!