Antarctica Just Had Its Hottest Temperature on Record

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.”