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Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship

Posted by timothy on from the good-on-'em dept.

The shipload of researchers and tourists stuck in the Antarctic ice are still stuck. A Chinese icebreaker, the Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, has gotten tantalizingly close but was hampered by "unusually thick ice." Now, an Australian vessel, the Aurora Australis, will attempt to rescue the 74 people aboard the MV Akademik Shokalskiy.

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  1. Re:I thought that... by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, of course: Because when the average temperature in December rises from -18 C to -16 C means that it's impossible for water to even consider freezing.

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  2. Re:Antarctica ... Ice by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also why use ice area/volume as a standard of the global temperature?

    ..perhaps because for years we have been told that shrinking ice area/volume was a standard indicator of global warming.

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