Antarctic island hits record temperature of 20.75C
This latest reading was taken at a monitoring station on Seymour Island, part of a chain of islands off the same peninsula, at the northernmost point of the continent.
"We can't use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It's a data point," he said."It's simply a signal that something different is happening in that area."According to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation , temperatures on the Antarctic continent have risen by almost 3C over the past 50 years, and that about 87% of the glaciers along its west coast have"retreated" in that time.
Scientists have warned that global warming is causing so much melting at the South Pole, it will eventually disintegrate - causing the global sea level to rise by at least three metres over the coming centuries.
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