Your Fault: More Meteorites Are Disappearing In Overheating Antarctic

No matter the issue, the climate cult will blame it on hotcoldwetdry

A ‘shocking’ number of meteorites — and their secrets — are sinking into Antarctic ice due to global warming

Antarctica has long been loved by astronomers for hosting rocks from outer space — more than 48,000 meteorites cataloged were found here, and about 1,000 new ones are recovered each year, thanks to their dark profiles that are easy to spot on the icy white plains of the frozen continent. However, as human-driven climate change raises temperatures in the isolated South Pole at twice the rate as elsewhere on Earth, approximately 5,000 meteorites are heating up and sinking into the ice every year and becoming inaccessible, a new study finds.

“This is shocking — you are losing five times as many meteorites as you are finding,” says Harry Zekollari, a glaciologist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and the co-author of the new study. “I wasn’t expecting we’d lose so many.”

How dare you cause this!

About 300,000 to 850,000 meteorites are yet to be collected from Antarctica’s ice sheets, and in recent years researchers have already found them to be perched partly in the ice sheet, rather than fully exposed. Even when temperatures are well below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), the sunlight warms the meteorites, whose dark profiles soak up solar radiation more easily than other types of rocks, says Tollenaar. The warmed meteorites then melt underlying ice into pools of water which over time deepens into a hole, sinking the rocks. After the water refreezes into ice during local winters, the meteorites become inaccessible.

So, it’s the sun that’s doing this? Not you driving a fossil fueled vehicle?

The findings are based on a machine-learning model developed by Tollenaar and her colleagues, which estimates the number of meteorites visible across various regions in Antarctica under different warming conditions. Using the algorithm, the researchers had previously created a treasure map depicting 600 unexplored meteorite-rich zones, to aid the search for meteorites. In the latest study, the researchers forecast how many meteorites would be lost under varying climate change conditions, based on their previous climate-modeling work. The findings indicate that over the next few decades, somewhere between 4,000 to 6,000 rocks in such zones will sink into the ice every year, while over 75 percent would disappear by the end of this century, according to the study, which was published this month in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Under current policies, which may cause global warming of about 4.7 F (2.6 C), nearly 30 percent of the space rocks will become unrecoverable by 2050, the study finds.

So, computer models while using a silly scaremongering doomy prognostication of temperature, even though it’s only gone up around 1.5F since 1850. Regardless, the sun is going to do what the sun does, and hits hard at the poles during peak summertime in the Antarctic.

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