Don't unpack your Bathing Suit Yet

Timothy Birdnow

A temperature record has been recorded in Antarctica. An island station charted a 69.35* F. record high.

But don't get your panties in a bunch yet, Greta.

First, it is summer in Antarctica.

Second, it is just one station. The article admits:

"We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica," Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP.

He cautioned that the reading, taken at a monitoring station on an island off the continent's northern tip on February 9, "has no meaning in terms of a climate-change trend," because it is a one-off temperature and not part of a long-term data set.

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"We can't use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It's a data point," he said.

"It's simply a signal that something different is happening in that area."

Third, this was on an off-shore island, not on the continent itself. It was on Seymore Island, off the much warmer Antarctic Peninsula. It's just off Graham Land, which is a highly volcanic region (which may well influence temperatures there.)

Jack Dini writes at Canada Free Press;


Fourth, there is a lot more in the way of data collection now on the frozen continent. Our records are far less complete now than in the past.

And finally, the rest of the continent remains bone-ass cold. McMurdo Station saw an average of minus 5.2 degrees F. yesterday. At the height of summer. It is currently forty below zero at Amundson-Scott
at the South Pole. And it is currently minus 51 F. at Vostok Station.

Ten years ago in August NASA satellites recorded a thermometer-breaking low of -135.8 degrees F. If this is global warming then it is a capricious warming indeed.

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