To provide a Prime, and a Contrast and Compare Example, I want to direct your attention to an article that was written in the Washington Post by Kasha Patel just about 10 days ago.
Scientists found the most intense heat wave ever recorded — in Antarctica On March 18, 2022, temperatures peaked to minus-10 degrees Celsius. That’s warmer than even the hottest temperature recorded during the summer months. Scientists found the most intense heat wave ever recorded — in Antarctica - The Washington Post
I am not disputing the facts in the piece Kasha Patel wrote at all. I am a Data researcher, working on a project for an Australian Academic and Antarctic Expert, establishing the long-term Temperature Trend for Fuji Dome form 1995 - 2023, in similar fashion as it was done for Mawson (one of three Australian Research Stations there), the longest continuous record since 1954 on Antarctica. For that project I have access to all the Antarctic Data that is listed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison's AMRDC Global Data Depository (Anyone can access that really, it is Public Data, even Kasha Patel could do that too). So, I Fact Checked the Article on Dome C (Concordia Station) for March 2022 and sure enough the Data was accurate (See the -9.4.C under the MAX Column at 03/18/2022):
What I see as problematic is the taking of a "Singular", once in a Maybe 100- or 500-Year event, a Fluke Weird Weather Event, that effected a small portion around one of the Five Weather Stations on the Polar High Plateau, which is a part of a Huge Continent, and trying to leave the impression that this is now the new Normal for Antarctica as a whole, while just about three weeks earlier, around Labor Day it was Extremely Cold at all those Five Weather Stations and most 90 % of the Rest of Antarctica. And then of course where was Kasha in 2023 when Concordia Station hit around Minis 82 C? Kasha?
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