Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record

by melonkidneyon 2/13/2020, 4:02 PMwith 13 comments

by xupybdon 2/13/2020, 5:56 PM

As a lay person I find it really hard to understand the significance of this single days temperature reading. It sounds alarming but I have no idea how to view that single data point. I wish they'd go into more detail in explaining that in these sorts of articles.

by chrisco255on 2/13/2020, 4:49 PM

Paper mentions Thwaites glacier but does not mention the subsea volcanoes contributing to ice loss in the West Antarctic: https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-antarctic-g...

Antarctica as a whole has seen a slight increase in ice over the last 40 years, with record extent being achieved as recently as 2014:

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/