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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (9 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Funny you should ask.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's terrifying, 1 Argentina is 4 Texases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Give or take a few Texans ..

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