More groaning events for planet earth. While the North Pole is supposedly melting, the South Pole just suffered through the coldest winter ever. So remember, the climate change crowd wants us to be terrified of the earth getting too cold or getting too hot. They just want us terrified of something. Fearful people are much easier to control.
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Unprecedented bouts of extreme heat and increased ice melting events have become the common topics of global warming worries. But in the South Pole, the opposite effects have been just as jarring in recent months.
Unlike its flashier cousin, the North Pole, which has been made famous for its mythical holiday residents, the South Pole hasn't been as directly exposed to the effects of a heating climate. While rising temperatures and melting ice shelves have caused some worry for climatologists, the South Pole has been largely spared from the effects seen at the North Pole, which has endured widespread glacial melting and was even shrouded in wildfire smoke this summer.
But in the vast tundra of Antarctic ice at the South Pole, temperatures plummeted to levels never seen before this past winter.
At the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, located on the highest plateau of Antarctica, average temperatures from April to September, the continent's winter months, fell all the way down to 78 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (61 degrees below zero Celsius).
And that wasn't the lowest temperature of that range. That was the average.
According to data kept by the British Antarctic Survey, the 2021 winter's harsh temperatures were the lowest in more than 60 years. The research team, which is part of the Natural Environment Research Council, has been tracking temperature data in the South Pole since 1957 and had never recorded a winter this cold.
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