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Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

> On 2026-01-17 07:04, AlleyCat wrote:
>> 
>> Twenty years ago, Al Gore warned of imminent polar melt. Today however,
>> Antarctic sea ice is greater than it was at the time Gore made that claim.
>> 
>> Satellite records show long periods of stability and even overall expansion.
>> 
>> Antarctic wildlife tells the same story.
>> 
>> Penguins populations, for example, have expanded their range and increased in
>> number.
>> 
>> Globally too, extinction rates are lower today than a century ago, with most
>> losses occurring in the 19th and early 20th centuries due to hunting, habitat
>> destruction, and invasive species - not 'climate change'.

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> And now...
>
> ...facts!
>
> Antarctic sea ice has remained basically the same for the last almost 50 
> years.
>
> <https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph>
>
> Got there, select "Antarctic" and just look at the averages for the 
> decades, and they hardly change up or down.
>
> Now switch to the Arctic and look how much the average ice levels have 
> fallen.

Idiots like "AlleyCat" point to cold weather in some spots as a
refutation of global warming, apparently unaware of somewhat
localized phenomena such as the (north) polar vortex and the great
variability of weather, and apparently incognizant of the meaning
of global warming, i.e. the average temperature across the globe.

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    current changes unprecedented in speed.

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And well enough for every day,
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