News Article: South Pole Has Warmest Year on Record

[Bamaro]

The South Pole experienced its warmest year on record in 2009, according to newly released data from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The average temperature at the South Pole last year was still a bone-chilling minus 54.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 47.9 degrees Celsius) in 2009, making it the warmest year on record since 1957, when temperature records began at the South Pole, as was reported by Peter Rejcek, an editor for The Antarctic Sun, a part of the U.S. Antarctic Program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The previous record high was minus 54.4 F (minus 48 C), recorded in 2002, according to Tim Markle, senior meteorologist at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Last year was also the second warmest year on record for the planet, according to NASA measurements of global surface temperatures released earlier this year. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements since the late 1800s, was 2005.
South Pole Has Warmest Year on Record - Yahoo! News

 

[Bodhisattva]

-54.2 degrees is still cold enough to freeze water though, right?

 

[CBag4Bama]

Obama's fault.

 

[NYBamaFan]

Warmest year on record. Records go back a whole 53 years.

Makes me wonder - those star systems that we recently were able to view with the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope - were they really there before we recorded those inages? If a tree fall in the forrest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? :conf3:

Deep thoughts for a confused mind.

 

[RammerJammer14]

Wait wait wait, lemme be first!!

 

[swoop10]

LOL...Good job RamJam14. I thought that the whole GW thing was the global temp average and not going by the temp in certain areas. Everytime someone talks about how cold it is or the amount of snow in a certain areas, we are told that has nothing to do with GW. Now you take that argument and try to use it in your favor.

 

[deliveryman35]

OMG!!! Where will the poor polar bears go???!!!:wink:

 

[crimson fan man]

If enough ice melts maybe my land in North Alabama will become beachfront. Just looking ahead.

 

[PacadermaTideUs]

Though little (if any) global warming was seen over the decade from '98 through the end of '08, global average temperature anomalies consistently trended upward last year and so far this year. Even so, 2009 US Record Lows.

An individual event does not a local climate make. An individual location does not a global average make.

 

[Bama Reb]

The South Pole experienced its warmest year on record in 2009, according to newly released data from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The average temperature at the South Pole last year was still a bone-chilling minus 54.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 47.9 degrees Celsius) in 2009, making it the warmest year on record since 1957, when temperature records began at the South Pole, as was reported by Peter Rejcek, an editor for The Antarctic Sun, a part of the U.S. Antarctic Program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The previous record high was minus 54.4 F (minus 48 C), recorded in 2002, according to Tim Markle, senior meteorologist at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Last year was also the second warmest year on record for the planet, according to NASA measurements of global surface temperatures released earlier this year. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements since the late 1800s, was 2005.
South Pole Has Warmest Year on Record - Yahoo! News

OMG!!. A drop of 2 tenths of a degree over a period of 7 years! Oh no! Woe is us!!

FWIW, -54 degrees Fahrenheit is still pretty dad gum cold. It's so cold in fact, that if you spit on the ground (or the ice, as the case may be), the saliva that was at your body temp of +98.6 degrees before it left your mouth is a chunk of solid ice less than a second later when it hits. :eek2:

 

[AlistarWills]

OMG!!! Where will the poor polar bears go???!!!:wink:

Very good question. The same people who are yelling global warming are also the same ones that yell evolution. Yet global warming will kill all the polar bears, cause they can't EVOLVE BACK into brown bears. Seems to be a bit of a contradiction don't ya think.

 

[bamacon]

Were doomed. Heading to the nearest bridge...I'm out!

 

[Bodhisattva]

huh huh. Bamaro is talking about warming up a cold pole. huh huh :biggrin2:

 

[cbi1972]

Very good question. The same people who are yelling global warming are also the same ones that yell evolution. Yet global warming will kill all the polar bears, cause they can't EVOLVE BACK into brown bears. Seems to be a bit of a contradiction don't ya think.

Extinctions happen all the time, despite evolution. Mass extinctions often make way for new diversity to occupy niches left empty by extinct species.

A "sudden" global warming event 55.8 million years ago saw 11 degrees F of warming over 20,000 years, and a corresponding rise in sea level. Lack of oxygen in deep ocean caused mass marine extinctions, and a major turnover of mammalian life on land.

 

[AlistarWills]

Extinctions happen all the time, despite evolution. Mass extinctions often make way for new diversity to occupy niches left empty by extinct species.

A "sudden" global warming event 55.8 million years ago saw 11 degrees F of warming over 20,000 years, and a corresponding rise in sea level. Lack of oxygen in deep ocean caused mass marine extinctions, and a major turnover of mammalian life on land.

See, this is one of those things I find truly amusing. We can tell the temperature rise and fall "55.8 million years ago", over the course of a "20,000 year" period and how much oxygen was in the ocean with no equipment to measure this, or anyone around to use said non-existent equipment. Yet we can't agree on the temperature rise and fall over the past 10 years, with actual equipment to record that data.

For the record, I don't believe in people who believe in global warming and evolution. You are a fragment of someone's figment.

 

[cbi1972]

See, this is one of those things I find truly amusing. We can tell the temperature rise and fall "55.8 million years ago", over the course of a "20,000 year" period and how much oxygen was in the ocean with no equipment to measure this, or anyone around to use said non-existent equipment. Yet we can't agree on the temperature rise and fall over the past 10 years, with actual equipment to record that data.

For the record, I don't believe in people who believe in global warming and evolution. You are a fragment of someone's figment.

Is it your contention that global temperature has remained constant over the history of the Earth?

 

[Bama4Ever831]

Extinctions happen all the time, despite evolution. Mass extinctions often make way for new diversity to occupy niches left empty by extinct species.

A "sudden" global warming event 55.8 million years ago saw 11 degrees F of warming over 20,000 years, and a corresponding rise in sea level. Lack of oxygen in deep ocean caused mass marine extinctions, and a major turnover of mammalian life on land.

Completely correct. If mass extinctions happened after a warming over 20,000 years, what would happen if the same warming happened over a few decades?

 

[cbi1972]

Completely correct. If mass extinctions happened after a warming over 20,000 years, what would happen if the same warming happened over a few decades?

Feel-good legislation?

 

[AlistarWills]

Is it your contention that global temperature has remained constant over the history of the Earth?

Nope. But that's not a bad idea, 78 to 85 degrees year round would be nice! My point was that it's a joke that you'd believe in some 11 degree temp shift over a 20,000 year period that happened at a time when you yourself don't believe people or thermometers existed. Who recorded this temperature shift? Did the raptor scratch it into a cave wall somewhere with those big claws? I'm sure you'll come back saying a rock told you...

 

[Relayer]

Completely correct. If mass extinctions happened after a warming over 20,000 years, what would happen if the same warming happened over a few decades?

Feel-good legislation?

:rofl: