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What time of year in each photo?

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Are you suggesting that Antarctica typically thaws out in the summer?

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Mountains of ice melt in the summer then the water refalls in the fall and winter as snow and freezing rain in truly apocalyptic amounts. Rebuilding the ice mountains to start the process over.

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Can’t tell if a joke or if user doesn’t understand how glaciers work.

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Is this Antarctica or the Arctic? The title said the Arctic, but you said Antarctica and the mountains do remind me more of the south than the north.

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I assumed it was northern Canada, Russia, Iceland, or one of the other land masses at the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

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  1. It is the Arctic, not the ant-arctic.

Actually that’s all.

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What is this, an Arctic for Ants?!

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Would you say it’s ant-antarctic?

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Question. How fast do you think glaciers reach that height?

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Did you think my question was a veiled attempt at climate change denial, lol?

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What was it, ignorance and stupidity?

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I’m not your thread’s OP but I want to know the same question (what were the seasons) because no, I don’t know how fast glaciers reach that height either. Nothing about that implies denial of the validity, it’s a question to help quantify the change. Varying 10ft between seasons means this is a massive change regardless of season. Varying 100ft, not so much. No, I don’t beleive it’d actually be 100fr of change in 6 months, but I could see it being more than 10ft.

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No the question isn’t time of year but of time of day.

See it was mid morning so the glaciers all left for tea.

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Given that the sun is up at roughly the same amount, and at the poles the sun remains consistently up or down according to the season, I think we can rightly assume these two photos are taken at least approximately at similar times of the year.

Also, are you trying to insinuate that 100+ foot tall glaciers are somehow “seasonal?” Because they aren’t.

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Glaciers actually do retreat and advance seasonally or on even longer cycles. Some have terminuses that move back and forth literal miles. One of the key indicators of climate change is the fact that globally, glaciers are retreating more than they’re advancing on average.

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“I must try to look smart by saying lots of things but being one hundred percent wrong about the topic at hand”

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Sure, but completely disappear in a season as if that’s “normal?” No.

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Is the boat the same distance from the shore?

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Are you trolling? The seasonal variation in arctic glaciers is negligible.

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I’m sure it’s just a smidge of winter snow build up. No need to be alarmed

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The motorized boat is an accurate representation of how things are today.

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3 points

Yes, let’s focus on that.

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I mean anyone is free to try their hand at reproducing it better, I’m sure the spot hasn’t changed that much since the modern one here was taken, and if it has, well it’ll just make the comparison that much more dramatic.

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Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

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Thanks, emissionschads!

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Facebook comments: Well obviously it was taken in the SUMMER 😂🤣😆 Morons global warming is all fear mongering!

Yes Jim. It’s very normal that entire glaciers disappear, regularly in fact, every year. You are so smart, much smarter than all of the scientists who are panicking.

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The only issue that really matters to me is climate change. Or maybe plastic.

But this is the same as the picture of the statue of liberty that is used to “debunk” sea level rise by showing the level at the same height, despite being taken 100 years apart. Were they taken at the same tide? Same time of year? Is there any other factor at play here?

This is a “shoe is on the other foot” moment, and we should be as skeptical of that which supports our beliefs as we are of that which contradicts it. Maybe especially so because confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

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Glaciers don’t change with a full moon.

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And I never said they did.

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Ummm…. There’s people right here on lemmy saying the same dumb shit about summer. Don’t think for a second that lemmy doesn’t host some of the exact same idiots Facebook does.

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Good news is that many instances on Lemmy are less tolerant to alt-right trolls and climate deniers. Best to use that report function so your admins, or even better, their admins, can snipe them.

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Good idea. Though I generally don’t like to over-use the report function.

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We are all humans, we are all dumb. A smart human isn’t one who knows everything, they’re one who knows what they don’t know and knows who knows that. And, ya know, defers to the people who know about things when they don’t.

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Reddit comment: Shaving does make your dinghy look bigger!

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Also, the sunlight suggests it’s summer in the first photo (or at least not winter).

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56 points

At least we got some space to build car centric suburbia, eh? /s

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More room to pollute! 🥳🥳🥳

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It depends what. Plastic recycling is mostly a scam/fraud and does not fix nor change much.

The industry has long known that plastics recycling is not economically or practically viable, the report shows. An internal 1986 report from the trade association the Vinyl Institute noted that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of”.

In 1989, the founding director of the Vinyl Institute told attendees of a trade conference: “Recycling cannot go on indefinitely, and does not solve the solid waste problem.”

Despite this knowledge, the Society of the Plastics Industry established the Plastics Recycling Foundation in 1984, bringing together petrochemical companies and bottlers, and launched a campaign focused on the sector’s commitment to recycling.

In 1988, the trade group rolled out the “chasing arrows” – the widely recognized symbol for recyclable plastic – and began using it on packaging. Experts have long said the symbol is highly misleading, and recently federal regulators have echoed their concerns.

Cited article, and the report’s source

Recycling paper, metal and glass will help and make a difference, keeping in mind that we need to use less in the first place. However plastic recycling is broken by default, pretty much everywhere.

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Looks like a nice enough spot for a landfill. Get on that, pronto.

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11 points

Maybe there’s oil under there!

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4 points

Then it would need liberation and a hefty dose of freedumb!

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Send America, STAT!

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Or coal?

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