Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice -- and scientists are scrambling to figure out why | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 2 years ago

Argentina-size must be the stupidest measure ever invented. No one even known how really huge Argentina is because the visual map everyone has on their mind is the Mercator projection. Americans would use anything before metric.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

That's about 5.1 France's for our European metric friends.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

In the UK everything always seems to be measured in Essexs.

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Isnt "one Texas" one of the standard nonsense units used in the United states? Why aren't they using that? Or can they only use it when it's 1, 2, 5 or 12 texases and otherwise it's Argentina's?

[-] JWBananas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Funny you should ask.

In all seriousness, there was a Texas-sized-chunk-of-ice event in 2016.

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Well that's terrifying, 1 Argentina is 4 Texases

[-] Lodespawn@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Give or take a few Texans ..

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I seem to remember that the asteroid broke up over Russia and was captured on film a while ago was the size of half a giraffe. Or 0.000001 Texas, Texas's, Texai?