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As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Argentina-size must be the stupidest measure ever invented. No one even known how really huge Argentina is because the visual map everyone has on their mind is the Mercator projection. Americans would use anything before metric.

[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Isnt "one Texas" one of the standard nonsense units used in the United states? Why aren't they using that? Or can they only use it when it's 1, 2, 5 or 12 texases and otherwise it's Argentina's?

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's terrifying, 1 Argentina is 4 Texases

[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Give or take a few Texans ..

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