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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Sep \ on: Will Antarctica melt before the Arctic? oracle
No. The Arctic already does largely melt in the summer.
Warmer water can circulate underneath the Arctic, which can't happen with Antarctica.
Also, it's the northern latitudes that are primarily driving global warming.
So, you believe the global warming is a real thing.
I think it's more chaos than reality.I put the basis of my argument in my realisation that Himalayas aren't melting as fast as they should if the Arctic is melting so rapidly. Also, if there's one glacier melting, I've seen new ones forming up. Nobody talks about the new ones surprisingly.
I have read and trust the old scientific narrations in ancient books which suggest that the formation of the earth and it's atmosphere is always evolving and there's nothing that's on this earth that will possibly destroy the humanity. The global warming is just a temporary shift and it will pass. The Earth heals itself.
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I worded my statement unclearly. "Global Warming" refers to the change in average surface temperatures over the entire planet. That average is rising, but the inference that it's evenly distributed, either spatially or temporally, is completed false.
There's a lot of local variation in climate trends. Arctic winter nighttime temperatures have been increasing and that increase accounts for most of the change in average global temperatures.
We're on the same page about this not being an existential threat and part of an ever adjusting complex system.
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Thankfully we're not foes expect being captains of opposite teams, haha.
I definitely agree with you on every word here. For the last 5 years so, I've witnessed that the winters are cooler here, some days are exceptionally cold. We have been regularly recording below 5° C temperatures in winters which is not usual at my place. And there are instances of snowfall in the lower Himalayas which used to be very rare.
On a side note...
If I'm being asked the same question, I'll just say "Neither will melt." Haha
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