Antarctica: Hottest temperature ever recorded, 65º F / 18.3º C

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/08/antarctica-records-hottest-tem.html

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That’s shorts and t-shirt weather.

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Bordering on the literal:

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Stil a bit chilly for a good swim though:

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Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you?

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And that’s putting it mildly.

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Now that you said it… Reminds me of Dylan Moran’s line “The weather is fierce mild!”

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Death will be warm.

Duh it’s cyclic.

Nope.  

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Sarcasm alert!

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It hit 40°C in Hobart a week ago.

Forty degrees is routine for mainland Australia; it’s highly unusual for Tasmania.

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I expect everyone here has had to deal with at least one person who would say that as part of a denialist argument, unfortunately.

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Absolutely but I’m going to be the biggest I told you so ever, right before we all die or starve to death.

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Not our finest hour.

I can’t wait until they perfect the sailing container ships. That will finally put bunker burning ships out of competition and remove the single largest man made contributor to global warming.

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It’s not a particularly captivating argument anyway, given that natural climate cycles already render currently-populated areas uninhabitable with monotonous regularity.

on the plus side, if it all melts, we may finally see if Atlantis is really under there.

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Either that or we wake up some elder gods.

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Yogg Saron lives!!!

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