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Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say that's not good news (www.unilad.com)

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[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 42 points 1 year ago

Flowers in Antarctica - added to band name list

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Antarctic Bloom

[-] FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

And still people deny climate change.

“THEY’VE BEEN SAYING THE SKY IS FALLING SINCE THE 70’S AND NOTHING HAPPENED! IT’S ALL BOGUS”

Dumb fucking cunts, it’s BEEN happening. 50 years might as well be overnight on earth’s lifespan, but even if this shit happened literally overnight you’d have these stupid fucking mouthbreathers saying “NUH UH”

I don’t get it. When did republicans start hating science? What is their vested interest in denying climate change? It’s literally just the republican thing to do now so they do it, and then call the rest of brainwashed for good measure.

It makes me want to slam my fucking head into the wall I cannot wrap my mind around their fucking stupidity.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Scientists keep moving the goalposts!"

Because we've been running over the goalposts like a goddamn freight train. First it was about avoiding mass extinctions. Oops, too late. Then it was about saving coral reefs. Oops, too late. Then it was about avoiding massive worsening chaotic weather systems. Oops, too late. Now it's about reducing the severity of the droughts and floods. Now it's about keeping the oncoming death toll in the hundreds of millions instead of billions.

[-] Draghetta@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

Since when is unilad a reputable source?

I struggled to find this story on any outlet that isn’t a tabloid, an official-sounding never-heard-before bumfucknowhere gazette or a repeater like msn.

The original article seems to be from the guardian (quoted as such by the university itself) in a far less sensationalist way. It was written so long ago that people still thought Russia was a superpower, unilad decided to sensationalise it and publish it as fresh news one and a half years later.

The story is worrying don’t get me wrong, but this is just doom porn.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 27 points 1 year ago

I call dibs on some beach front property near the Antarctic Jungle

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Great news, all the remaining land will be beach front

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

We didn’t really need the experts. I could have told you this was a terrible development.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much been the popular attitude anyways

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023

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