polar heatwave

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https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ate-scientists
* Ice melts @ 5.6-C
* On February 9, 2020, Marambio Station, Seymour Island, Antarctica registered 20.75-C.
* Western Antarctica is warming faster than Eastern Antarctica.
* Ice-cap facing gyres are transporting warm surface water all the way to the bottom grounding line of the ice, eroding it and creating upside-down ice sheet / glacier crevices, generating cantilevered ice, with stress/strain, leading to fractures and calving.
* Summer solstice eve,2020, Siberia, Arctic Circle, experienced 38-C ( 101-F)
* June, 2020, permafrost melting causes catastrophic diesel reservoir failure, Norilsk Nickel Power Station, Norilsk, Siberia, 21,000-tonnes of diesel pours into the Ambarnaya River.