Source: Rain Showers in Greenland Point to Climate Change - The New York Times Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time. The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several hours, as temperatures rose slightly above freezing — is yet another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on the planet. “It’s incredible, because it does write a new chapter in the book of Greenland,” said Marco Tedesco, a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. “This is really new.” . . . Some of us are not surprised. Bob Wilson
Well I'm surprised. High point is location of weather station we used to chat about. I'd have to recheck elevation but it is high - high like a place one would expect snow even at low latitudes. Any rising air mass needs to climb up over 100s kms ice. Dang. It's one of those places people might go (if they are researchers or otherwise deranged), but site operator's policy is like 'not our fault if you die here'. == Could be testing of Israeli space lasers and they were not supposed to hit exactly there. D'oh. == But seriously now folks, any future ice cores that get cored from there will be trashed for the top cm or 20 cm or however deep this novel contamination got before chillin'
There and S. Pole facility compete for 'hell on earth, cold version'. Amundsen-Scott Base has more relaxed drugs&alcohol policies though. So I have heard. Not that I'd know. == Oh, Everest? Different clientele. No research happens there, so no researchers, only the deranged who come to take selfies and leave behind toes.
Vostok Station should rank in there too, higher altitude (11,447 feet) than Amundsen-Scott and Summit Station, and reaching about 11F colder. But even less accessible to most of us. I can somehow imagine wanting to go to Everest. Base Station, that is. Anything above that, I'd much too likely be leaving a lot more than some toes. Like an entire corpse at the bottom of a crevasse, or the base of some steep icy slope, with brain cells pre-deceased by hypoxia without getting anywhere up near the Death Zone.
Thanks to Douglas Adams: Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B | Hitchhikers | Fandom The Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet … Bob Wilson
