SIMPLY MIND-BOGGLING – 38.5C above average temperature in Antarctica: “…if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population”.
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Someone at the Guardian is asleep at the switch. The data described is for March 2022, two years ago. I remember reading the stories back then. But it appears the science editor at the Guardian doesn’t bother to check the dates when he reports stories.
The Guardian used to be a good publication.
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The article was written last week (April 6th). The first four paragraphs refer to the 2022 heat wave, but the rest of the article contains updated information from the last two years since then.
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The 38.5ºC scare headline in the Guardian article refers to March 2022. It is old news. There is no clear data in the rest of the article to suggest whether this is now a regular occurrence or was just a freak anomaly. The current updates in the Guardian article consist of a 2024 staggeringly technical paper on standard deviation of sea ice loss, and a 2023 article on penguin population loss. The rest of the Guardian article is just speculation and then yet more excerpts from the 2022 interview. The entire article is a mess. It looks as if the reporter thought this was a March 2024 report, then discovered at the last minute it was two years old, and then papered over the error while keeping the scare headline, and the subhead, unchanged at the top. This is lazy, incompetent and irresponsible journalism by the Guardian, which once offered good journalism. The last thing we need in dealing with climate collapse is to give deniers ammunition to suggest we are misleading and scare-mongering.
I am not arguing that there isn’t a climate crisis occurring in the Antarctic. There is data to support this, that competent journalists have reported on. But this article provides none. This is why I no longer read or cite the Guardian. There are much better sources.
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Thanks, Dave. your points are well-taken. We don’t want to give the denialists (of all stripes) more ammunition by providing them with sloppy, messy articles. But since those true believer denialists don’t seem to have any shortage of “ammunition” in their fact-less, misinformation trash heap, I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Those more honest skeptics who really want to know what is going on, will soon have so much nearly undeniable (except for those who can even deny when their shoe is on fire) real scientific evidence of overshoot and systemic collapse widely available, in everybody’s faces, that denial will become much more difficult work.
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Thanks for pointing this out Dave. We’ve amended the blog to say “New article” rather than “New science”.
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Is there any reason to think that the combination of events that caused temperatures to rise abruptly 40C in Antarctica won’t be happening more and more frequently in other places around the Earth in coming years–including cities and towns–as the planet continues to warm?
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