2020 Is Hottest Year in Antarctic Peninsula in 31 Years; Still Want To Deny Climate Change?
The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile found.??
According to researchers at the Chilean Air Force's Frei Base on King George Island temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius on the peninsula, which is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, in the six months between January and August this year.
In another statement released by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), climatologist Raul Cordero said hose temperatures are "more than 2 degrees Celsius over typical values,"?
"In the far northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, the average maximum temperature so far this year has been above 0 degrees. This had not happened in 31 years," Cordero added.?He further called that fact "alarming," since it could indicate that the rapid rate of ocean warming observed in the area at the end of the 20th century is resuming.
The high Southern Hemisphere winter temperatures are in contrast, however, with those registered between August and September, which reached -16.8 degrees Celsius, the lowest since 1970, which is believed to be due to extensive global warming the world is experiencing.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, where there are scientific and military bases from several countries, including Argentina, Chile and Britain.
