{"id":68460,"date":"2024-06-03T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68460"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:44:52","slug":"means-of-extinction-antarctic-super-vortex-is-accelerating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68460","title":{"rendered":"Means of Extinction: Antarctic &#8220;Super Vortex&#8221; is Accelerating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guymcpherson.substack.com\/p\/means-of-extinction-antarctic-super\">Means of Extinction: Antarctic &#8220;Super Vortex&#8221; is Accelerating<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"youtube2-ztQjtSf3Yy4\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ztQjtSf3Yy4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ztQjtSf3Yy4?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-13245019\/Antarctica-super-vortex-speeding-climate-change-melt-thousands-square-miles-sea-ice-study-reveals.html\" rel=\"\">Daily Mail in the UK comes an article titled Antarctica \u2018super vortex\u2019 is speeding up due to climate change \u2013 and it could melt thousands of square miles of sea ice, study reveals. The article was published on 27 March 2024<\/a><\/em>. More sensationalist headlines appear in other outlets. From the\u00a0<em>Daily\u00a0<\/em>Star on 4 April 2024 is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/antarctica-super-vortex-could-put-32508379\" rel=\"\">Antarctica \u2018super vortex\u2019 could put mankind underwater like an \u2018apocalyptic film.\u2019<\/a>\u00a0From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/news\/science\/urgent-warning-antarctica-super-vortex-climate-change-104632-20240401\" rel=\"\">LAD Bible dot com on 1 April 2024 is Urgent warning over Antarctic \u2018super vortex\u2019 that could affect fate of humanity<\/a>. In addition to serving as click-bait, these headlines might be more accurate than the one in the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>. Corporate media outlets tend to avoid articles about human extinction.<\/p>\n<p>The story in the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0refers to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07143-3\" rel=\"\">peer-reviewed, open-access paper in\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07143-3\" rel=\"\">Nature<\/a><\/em>. Here\u2019s the lede from the article in the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>: \u201cA massive vortex of ocean water encircling Antarctica, a swirling volume 100-times larger than all the world\u2019s rivers combined, is getting faster due to \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/climate_change_global_warming\/index.html\" rel=\"\">climate change<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vortex is known as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. It slows during Earth\u2019s cool periods, such as during Ice Ages. It hastens when the planet warms. Considering we are undergoing the fastest rate of environmental change in planetary history, according even to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 8 October 2018 report\u00a0<em>Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees<\/em>, it comes as no surprise that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current represents a threat leading to the extinction of all life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The article in the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0begins with three key points: (1) Antarctic Circumpolar Current churns 6 billion cubic-feet of water per second; (2) the vortex slows during cool eras, like the Ice Age, but speeds up with global warming; and (3) researchers drilled 500- to 650-ft-long deep sea sediment cores for the study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Means of Extinction: Antarctic &#8220;Super Vortex&#8221; is Accelerating From the\u00a0Daily Mail in the UK comes an article titled Antarctica \u2018super vortex\u2019 is speeding up due to climate change \u2013 and it could melt thousands of square miles of sea ice, study reveals. The article was published on 27 March 2024. 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