
Amid a record hot summer in large parts of Northern Hemisphere, beset by devastating fires, floods and hurricanes, Antarctica was mired in a deep, deep freeze. That’s typically the case during the southernmost continent’s winter months, but 2021 was different.
The chill was exceptional, even for the coldest location on the planet.
The average temperature at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between April and September, a frigid minus-78 degrees (minus-61 Celsius), was the coldest on record, dating back to 1957. This was 4.5 degrees lower than the most recent 30-year average.
We first learned of this record through a tweet from Stefano Di Battista, who has published research on Antarctic temperatures. The legitimacy of Di Battista’s information was confirmed by Richard Cullather, a research scientist at NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
The temperature averaged over September was also the coldest on record at South Pole, wrote David Bromwich, a polar researcher at Ohio State University, in an email.
The extreme cold over Antarctica helped push sea ice levels surrounding the continent to their fifth-highest level on record in August, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Read more at Seattle Times.
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You don’t know what global warming is? Look it up it’s a scam by politicians to make believe they are doing something and spending your money on nonsense. The politicians ar Libs.
Poor AL Gore. He must be going out if his mind!
Cut the drivel, global warming is a reality and entire island nations are about to go neck-deep in water, what kind of a wacko agenda would lead anyone to post this ludicrous headline?
The geoengineering technology can modify the weather to whatever you want; sun, wind, snow, rain, volcanoes, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
Pie in the sky fantasies.
Name one island nation that is about to go underwater I would like to buy cheap real estate there.
The libs, to counter these claims, changed the name to climate change instead of global warming. This way hot or cold, they win