Even Antarctica can’t run from extreme weather


A seal is seen on ice floating near Fournier Bay, Antarctica. — Reuters

EVEN in Antarctica – one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth – scientists say they are finding shattered temperature records and an increase in the size and number of wacky weather events.

The southernmost continent is not isolated from the extreme weather associated with human-caused climate change, according to a new paper in Frontiers in Environmental Science that tries to make a coherent picture of a place that has been a climate change oddball.

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