The Totten glacier, East Antarctica. Photograph: Esmee van Wijk/Australian Antarctic Division East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again. A few weeks ago East Antarctica’s temperatures soared by 50F to 90F above normal. (("Antarctica Crushes Records", Dissident Voice, March 23, 2022.)) A couple of weeks
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A giant iceberg measuring about the size of Chicago calved from the Conger Ice Shelf in East Antartica this month, representing “virtually all” of what remained of the ice shelf,.