Antarctica is thawing, now green with plant life!

[United States of Natan]

This ISN'T GOOD. It means that climate change is getting worse.

[Sovaal]

This ISN'T GOOD. It means that climate change is getting worse.

Oh, I thought that it would meam cheap beach side condos

[Jamzmania]

Apparently, thanks to global warming, vast sums of land will now be much more habitable and arable. Thanks global warming!

Actually, a lot (If not most) of Antarctica is below sea level, so if the ice melts, it'll turn from a continent into an archipelago, so not much land would actually be gained.

I was thinking more Siberia and Canada.

[Zanera]

Yay, more dinosaur fossils.

Why should the British even bother? It is inevitable that the colonies will secede.

Because most ex British territories are great countries.

Like 'Murica!

[Sovaal]

Yay, more dinosaur fossils.

Because most ex British territories are great countries.

Like 'Murica!

Not only that, but fossils of the marsupials that lives there before the continent became a giant ice box!

[Sovaal]

Actually, a lot (If not most) of Antarctica is below sea level, so if the ice melts, it'll turn from a continent into an archipelago, so not much land would actually be gained.

I was thinking more Siberia and Canada.

Yah, your right in that these arwas would become more welcoming to darming, but at the cost of the loss of the far more productive farmlands of China and America to flooding and desertification.

[Zanera]

Yay, more dinosaur fossils.



Like 'Murica!

Not only that, but fossils of the marsupials that lives there before the continent became a giant ice box!

We'll also find the Nazi Antarctic base and the ancient alien colony, as well as the City of Gold, Atlantis, and D. B. Cooper.
Then we'll blow up the Nazi base, steal the aliens' tech, harvest the City of Gold, rip apart Atlantis to make it a tourist attraction, and then send D. B. Cooper to Guantanamo.

[The first Galactic Republic]

Actually, a lot (If not most) of Antarctica is below sea level, so if the ice melts, it'll turn from a continent into an archipelago, so not much land would actually be gained.

I was thinking more Siberia and Canada.

That land would be mostly marsh and bogs if it were warmer.

[Tekeristan]

I propose we convert Antarctica into a stateless ancap playground.

Seconded. Ancapistan shall rise.

Heh. Good luck.

[Greed and Death]

A new expansion point for the Norse, probably.

Haha.
Everywhere is an expansion point for the Norse.

That might explain the long boats I saw on my Trip there last year.

[Nea Videssos]

I guess this is Antarctica going back to how it used to be over 34 million years ago, eh?

[San Marlindo]

If the plant life has only encroached to 0.3% of Antarctica's actual landmass since 1950 (according to the OP's article), in another 70 years - by which time you and most people you know will probably be dead - it will creep up to 0.6%.

Another 70 years later it will be 0.9%, still less than 1%.

It won't be going green "within a few decades" at the current rate, so stop exaggerating.

This is only the case if the rate of increase is, or will remain, linear.

It is unlikely to.

Give me a good reason to believe it will significantly change.

[Jamzmania]

I was thinking more Siberia and Canada.

Yah, your right in that these arwas would become more welcoming to darming, but at the cost of the loss of the far more productive farmlands of China and America to flooding and desertification.

I heard that the globe is warming closer to the poles.

[Rio Cana]

Both Argentina and Chile are most likely happy that there frozen wasteland is becoming green even thought they must be worried about the melting. Who knows but in time they might hand out homesteading Visas to anyone willing to farm/look for resources in Antarctica thus increase there right to ownership. Australia owns a big chunk of Antartica. France has the smallest claim. The UK., Argentinian and Chilean claims all overlap. Both Chile and Argentina were united on not letting the UK. move into there claims.

And we all know how well Argentina defends territorial gains against the UK.

Argentina has been in Antarctica since the early 20 century. They even opened a school for kids at there Antartica base in 1982. All this helps them in establishing legal claim. The school is called the Provincial School 38

This is a photo of the school - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_mhFmeXM57c/ ... ESTROS.jpg

This a ceremony to commemorate the transfer of the school from national control to the province of "Tierra del Fuego,Antartica and the South Atlantic islands". - http://www.fmsoldados.com/img/2017/03/0 ... C_0735.jpg

Chile also has a school for kids at there Antarctica base. Its called School F-50 de Villa Las Estrellas and opened in 1984. The Chilean Antarctic region is a province of the Southern Chilean XII region of Magellan.

Photo - https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2435.jpg
and
https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2401.jpg

[Pope Joan]

Will the revealed reality reflect Lovecraft, or Poe?

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/26379- ... ctica-etc/

[Greed and Death]

And we all know how well Argentina defends territorial gains against the UK.

Argentina has been in Antarctica since the early 20 century. They even opened a school for kids at there Antartica base in 1982. All this helps them in establishing legal claim. The school is called the Provincial School 38

This is a photo of the school - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_mhFmeXM57c/ ... ESTROS.jpg

This a ceremony to commemorate the transfer of the school from national control to the province of "Tierra del Fuego,Antartica and the South Atlantic islands". - http://www.fmsoldados.com/img/2017/03/0 ... C_0735.jpg

Chile also has a school for kids at there Antarctica base. Its called School F-50 de Villa Las Estrellas and opened in 1984. The Chilean Antarctic region is a province of the Southern Chilean XII region of Magellan.

Photo - https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2435.jpg
and
https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2401.jpg

Antarctica is American. All of it.

[Gig em Aggies]

Argentina has been in Antarctica since the early 20 century. They even opened a school for kids at there Antartica base in 1982. All this helps them in establishing legal claim. The school is called the Provincial School 38

This is a photo of the school - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_mhFmeXM57c/ ... ESTROS.jpg

This a ceremony to commemorate the transfer of the school from national control to the province of "Tierra del Fuego,Antartica and the South Atlantic islands". - http://www.fmsoldados.com/img/2017/03/0 ... C_0735.jpg

Chile also has a school for kids at there Antarctica base. Its called School F-50 de Villa Las Estrellas and opened in 1984. The Chilean Antarctic region is a province of the Southern Chilean XII region of Magellan.

Photo - https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2435.jpg
and
https://prensaantartica.files.wordpress ... cn2401.jpg

Antarctica is American. All of it.

Hell yeah just like the moon is American as well as Mars.

[The Federation of Kendor]

The plants are good, but seriously, this also means global warming is worsing, and definitely true, not false as some alternative facts claim. Also, aren't you all worried about the rising sea level of the world from the melting of the ice

[Hiachijan]

rip antarctic wildlife

[AiliailiA]

It's never going to be prime farming land, due to tundra being frozen swamp (not frozen topsoil) and the extreme variation in day length.

Meanwhile, the thawing will release masses of methane (and CO₂) which will accelerate global climate change.

Any upside is tiny compared to the disaster in progress. EDIT: Antarctic, not Arctic? Most of the above still applies, though warming in Antarctica is much less to date than warming in the Arctic.

[The Serbian Empire]

Apparently, thanks to global warming, vast sums of land will now be much more habitable and arable. Thanks global warming!

The growing season in Michigan will become similar to Kentucky and massive chunks of Canada will be agriculturally viable.

[AiliailiA]

rip antarctic wildlife

Well penguins and seals mainly need fish and cold water. They're not dependent on actual ice (like Polar Bears are) so they'll survive unless we take all the fish.

There's probably other wildlife I'm not aware of. Birds?

[AiliailiA]

Apparently, thanks to global warming, vast sums of land will now be much more habitable and arable. Thanks global warming!

The growing season in Michigan will become similar to Kentucky and massive chunks of Canada will be agriculturally viable.

Most of the world's population live in the Tropics. Upsides for Europeans and North Americans are basically "the rich get richer" and fuck most of humanity.

[Jamzmania]

The growing season in Michigan will become similar to Kentucky and massive chunks of Canada will be agriculturally viable.

Most of the world's population live in the Tropics. Upsides for Europeans and North Americans are basically "the rich get richer" and fuck most of humanity.

Is this even true?

[Gauthier]

My God... all those lifeforms are thawing out thanks to mankind...