#Antártida | Nuevo récord de temperaturas 🌡️
Este mediodía la Base #Esperanza registró un nuevo récord histórico (desde 1961) de temperatura, con 18,3°C. Con este valor se supera el récord anterior de 17,5°C del 24 en marzo de 2015. Y no fue el único récord… pic.twitter.com/rhKsPFytCb
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The new record is a sign that Antarctica’s peninsula, one of the fastest warming places on Earth, isn’t getting any cooler. Many of the region’s glaciers are melting. Professor James Renwick, a climate scientist at Victoria University of Wellington, told the Guardian, “Of course the record does need to be checked, but pending those checks, it’s a perfectly valid record and that [temperature] station is well maintained.”
Dr. Steve Rintoul, an oceanographer and Antarctic expert at CSIRO, echoed Renwick’s concert. “This is a record from only a single station, but it is in the context of what’s happening elsewhere and is more evidence that as the planet warms we get more warm records and fewer cold records.” 