Not in a meaningful timeframe, I think. Even if we get a worst case outcome (say +5°C by 2100, ongoing warming), permanent land ice in Antarctica will likely take many hundreds, or even thousands of years to melt entirely.
It’s always going to have frozen winters with lots of snow, due to the long dark polar winter… I guess some boreal tundra species could survive that, but farming is probably unlikely to be viable, I would guess.
i was reading about how the penguins create a bunch of weather in Antarctica with their fields of poop. It causes lots of snow storms because the ammonia and other components of the their waste, seed the moisture in the air to create weather patterns.
so they might be keeping chunks of Antarctica snow covered and they would have to be displaced before any real changes would happen. the ice melt wouldn’t stop them from moving further inland
Not in a meaningful timeframe, I think. Even if we get a worst case outcome (say +5°C by 2100, ongoing warming), permanent land ice in Antarctica will likely take many hundreds, or even thousands of years to melt entirely.
It’s always going to have frozen winters with lots of snow, due to the long dark polar winter… I guess some boreal tundra species could survive that, but farming is probably unlikely to be viable, I would guess.
i was reading about how the penguins create a bunch of weather in Antarctica with their fields of poop. It causes lots of snow storms because the ammonia and other components of the their waste, seed the moisture in the air to create weather patterns.
so they might be keeping chunks of Antarctica snow covered and they would have to be displaced before any real changes would happen. the ice melt wouldn’t stop them from moving further inland