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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGood Morning. It's 65 Degrees in Antarctica.
You could be walking around Antarctica in a T-shirt.
A record-breaking temperature reading taken at an Argentinian research station on the continent Thursday clocked in at 18.3 degrees Celsius 65 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it is right now in Orlando, Florida, and the hottest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica.
The reading was from a station on Esperanza, the peninsula on the northern tip of Antarctica thats been recording temperature data since 1961. As the planet heats, the poles are getting hotter way faster than the rest of the world. Hotter temperatures mean melting ice, which makes sea levels rise and threatens populations and economies around the world.
The U.N. is aiming to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius. Already, the world has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But at the poles, things are heating up way faster. There, its warmed by more than 3 degrees. And records are continuously being broken at a rate that has even scientists alarmed.
The last record-breaking temperature reading in Esperanza was taken only five years ago, on March 24, 2015. Then it was 17.5 degrees Celsius, about 63 degrees Fahrenheit. Thursdays reading broke that record by nearly a full degree.
More: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agaj3/good-morning-its-65-degrees-in-antarctica?utm_source=dmfb&fbclid=IwAR0vU6oJTqAunh9FMI7POp3db0IXY8nZFDolhD5KIOfZHXKxazLV1FLpioA
underpants
(182,872 posts)angrychair
(8,733 posts)Than it is here in Washington.
maxsolomon
(33,384 posts)Hemispheres and such...
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Its still Antarctica