Article that should be a focus in Miami: Antarctica Is Unraveling "Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.

Read this article and immediately thought of Florida coastal areas, especially Miami.

A major driver of Antarctica’s cascading crises is the loss of floating sea ice, which forms during winter. In 2014, it hit a peak extent (at least since satellite observations began in 1978) around Antarctica of 20.11 million square kilometers, or 7.76 million square miles. But since then, the coverage of sea ice has fallen not just precipitously but almost unbelievably, contracting by 75 miles closer to the coast. During winters, when sea ice reaches its maximum coverage, it has declined 4.4 times faster around Antarctica than it has in the Arctic in the last decade....

....the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, could collapse if global temperatures reach 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, raising sea levels by more than three meters, or about 10 feet. And it could still partially collapse before that.

https://gizmodo.com/antarctica-is-unraveling-2000650391?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

The global average temperature last month was 16.68C, the third-warmest ever recorded for the month, behind only July 2023 and July 2024, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It was also 1.25C above the pre-industrial average, marking only the fourth month in the last 25 with a temperature less than 1.5C above that average. The last 12 months, when taken together, were still 1.53C above the pre-industrial level.

https://earth.org/third-warmest-july-on-record-puts-end-to-recent-record-global-heat-streak/