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       2023-02-19T01:46:38Z
       
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       This is really pretty alarming. The climate is coming off the rails, fast."Research scientists on ships along Antarctica’s west coast said their recent voyages have been marked by an eerily warm ocean and record-low sea ice coverage.'What we’ve seen this year is dramatic,' said University of Delaware oceanographer Carlos Moffat...'Even as somebody who’s been looking at these changing systems for a few decades, I was taken aback...by the degree of warming that I saw...This looks like an extraordinary marine heatwave.'If such conditions recur in the coming years, it could start a rapid destabilization of Antarctica’s critical underpinnings of the global climate system, including ice shelves, glaciers, coastal ecosystems, and even ocean currents."#climate #warming #antarctica https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/antarctic-researchers-say-a-marine-heatwave-could-threaten-ice-shelves/?utm_brand=ars