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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 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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) (1 children)
[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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?

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

Do we just switch to Texans at that scale? So like 6 Texans?

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

I know how big it its, pretty big let me tell ya.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago

Why is the headline written like that?

"Scientists are scrambling to figure out why", we know why it's missing, it's not a mystery.

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

I bet it melted

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I wonder if that's the same piece as the Western Australia-sized piece reported missing here in Oz :)

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Anyone see The Day After Tomorrow?

[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

Somebody get then a gopro

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

My first thought was that Argentina took the piece of Antarctica they claimed.

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Jewish space lasers been busy again, eh?