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The article is incredibly biased, and incorrect. Temperatures were high in several detection points, not just in models. Here is an excerpt [1]: "The Concordia
by spupe 5y ago
The article is incredibly biased, and incorrect. Temperatures were high in several detection points, not just in models. Here is an excerpt [1]:
"The Concordia research base at Dome C of the Antarctic, which is at an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), on Friday registered a record -11.5 degrees Celsius (11.3 Fahrenheit), Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist from France-Meteo tweeted.
Normally, temperatures fall with the end of the southern summer, but the Dumont d'Urville station on Antarctica registered record temperatures for March with 4.9C (40.82F), at a time of year when normally temperatures are already sub-zero."
"Above normal" is of course inflammatory because it's comparing to the mean, not the previous record. But as you can see, primary temperature monitoring sites have recorded extremely high temperatures, sometimes record-breaking, and there is no modeling involved in these results.
[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/exceptionally-high-temperatures-in-antarctica-30-degrees-above-normal-2834514 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/exceptionally-high-temperatu...
- verisimi 5y ago"They key phrase here is: “weather stations near the north pole.” The northernmost weather station is Alert, Nunavut and it is 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. That’s like trying to gauge the temperature in Indianapolis from a warmer temperature reading in Atlanta." Do you think you can gauge the weather when you are 500 miles away from it? If that is correct, should all the papers etc have run with the headlines that they did last week? If you were a newspaper editor and knew this was how the information was being derived, would you feel comfortable giving your readers this information?