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I agree on the skepticism. The article says that these fishing nets just melted on the beach from high temperature, but there is no beach on earth that I've heard of where temperatures are hot enough to melt plastic. 56°C is the world record temperature, not hot enough.

The origin of these melted plastic blobs are what's interesting. People here treat the discovery as some kind of warning against pollution, but it's an oddity: something that has been found in only one place.



> 56°C is the world record temperature, not hot enough.

That sounds like air temperature. Surface temperature gets way hotter. It’s well known you can cook an egg on desert sand.


But how could it get hot enough to melt plastic in this beach, but nowhere else in the world?




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