Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 40 degrees warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 30 degrees warmer than average
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“They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south [poles] both melting at the same time,” Meier said on Friday. “It’s definitely an unusual occurrence.”“Wow. I have never seen anything like this in the Antarctic,” said University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who returned recently from an expedition to the continent.
At the same time, on Friday the Arctic as a whole was 3.3 degrees warmer than the 1979 to 2000 average.
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