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A rare "pink" sky over Antarctica. What's going on? What happened to earth in 2022?

What happened to earth in 2022? All sorts of unusual phenomena have come out, is the earth really changing?

By Theresa W ChavezPublished 4 years ago 3 min read

No matter how the earth changes, in fact, the "earth itself", not much impact, and its impact is mainly limited to the impact of other life on the earth may be large.

Theoretically speaking, the life of the Earth also has about 4 to 5 billion years, so the life of the Earth is still "long", we do not have to worry about the "earth itself" changes, the earth has not changed, the Earth is still the Earth.

From the point of view of life, one of the biggest factors affecting life is the earth's climate change. For example, for human beings, the experience may be the earth's climate change, which brings many extreme weather phenomena, resulting in problems of survival and so on, but probably nothing else.

But here we have a pink sky over Antarctica. What happens? How the Antarctic sky turned pink.

What is it about 2022 that really seems unusual? Here we will illustrate from the earth's climate change, to see whether there is a certain connection between the two, for us humans, there is no impact?

For the Earth, in fact, the earth's "abnormal signal" is indeed a normal occurrence. We see from the high temperature around, the northern hemisphere in many places rare high temperature, generally more than 40 degrees.

In June, the global average temperature was about 0.4℃ higher than usual, the highest since 1979. In Western Europe, the average temperature was more than 2℃ higher. Many cities in France, Spain, the United States, Japan and other countries set high temperature records.So, this is really not a good thing for the planet. So what are the reasons behind the normalization of earth's "abnormal signals"?

In fact, the fundamental change in climate is the abnormal atmospheric circulation caused by global warming, which leads to extreme climate change.

On the surface, the pink sky in Antarctica has something to do with climate change or atmospheric change, which must be a "bad state".

So, earth's "anomalous signals" are indeed on a regular basis, at least in 2022.

Of course, from the perspective of the root cause of global warming, this pattern may be more severe in the future, we should have a "psychological preparation", unless we completely change the trend of global warming, then it is possible to normalize the weakening of these "abnormal signals", or it is only possible to increase.

OK! Here's what the "pink" sky at the South Pole is all about.

An "unusual" phenomenon has been observed over Antarctica, a rare condition in which the sky turns pink. Scott, a technician from The Antarctic Base in New Zealand, says this is a real phenomenon in Antarctica's unique sky. As we can see from these pictures, the Antarctic sky is a bit special.

This phenomenon is similar to what we call "sunset glow". But for Antarctica, it's not supposed to happen, so it's rare. And according to Stuart Shane, a scientist in New Zealand, there have been similar cases in New Zealand and Australia in the last month. And this kind of change is indeed with climate, atmosphere change existence certain relation.

Could it have something to do with high temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, causing atmospheric changes in The South Pole? In fact, there is no absolute relationship between the two, although there are climatic and atmospheric effects.

The only similarity that exists is that the atmosphere fluctuates. So, here is the answer to the question you said above - for us humans, is there any impact? There is no direct effect.

What the hell was that all about?

This reason, after all, still has to go to the Tongan volcano in January 2022, that is to say, with the tongan volcano eruption.

It is well known that volcanic eruptions produce a lot of material, such as ash, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, and tonga is no different.

After the Tongan eruption, aerosols made up of sulphate particles accumulated in the stratosphere. These aerosols remained high above the Earth for months, moving as the atmosphere changed and "spreading" throughout the stratosphere.

So it's the material from the Tongan volcano that gets into Antarctica that's what's causing this -- the pink sky over Antarctica.

These materials scatter or reflect various colors of light with sunrise and sunset, and the color and intensity of the light varies due to the thickness of the clouds.

And according to New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, large amounts of aerosols have been found in the atmosphere 10 to 15 kilometers above Antarctica that were not present before the Tonga eruption. So, this is the afterglow effect of the Tongan eruption.

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