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.
Stil a bit chilly for a good swim though:
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you?
And that’s putting it mildly.
Now that you said it… Reminds me of Dylan Moran’s line “The weather is fierce mild!”
Death will be warm.
Duh it’s cyclic.
Nope.
Sarcasm alert!
It hit 40°C in Hobart a week ago.
Forty degrees is routine for mainland Australia; it’s highly unusual for Tasmania.
I expect everyone here has had to deal with at least one person who would say that as part of a denialist argument, unfortunately.
Absolutely but I’m going to be the biggest I told you so ever, right before we all die or starve to death.
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.
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.
Either that or we wake up some elder gods.
Yogg Saron lives!!!