Scientists have also observed record-breaking unusually high temperatures in the North and South Pole. (Schematic/Pixabay)
The north and south poles, which are supposed to be “opposite seasons”, have experienced rare high temperatures recently, and the average temperature is still 30 to 40 °C higher. Some areas even broke the local high temperature record, which surprised the scientific community. This has never been experienced in human history. The past polar climate phenomenon has not only rewritten climatology, but scientists even bluntly said that this is extraordinary and “absolutely not a good omen”.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the Antarctic Dome C (Dome C), one of the coldest regions in the world, was supposed to “fall into autumn” in March, but on the 18th, it opened at the observation station Vostok (3,489 meters above sea level) at an altitude of 3,489 meters. ) measured -17.7°C, which was a full 40.2°C higher than the -57.9°C average temperature in the past three months; as for the North Pole, where the seasons are opposite, the temperature measured on the 18th was 3.3°C higher than the average temperature from 1979 to 2000. , and every March is supposed to be the time when the Arctic ice reaches its peak, but it has the same record-breaking high temperature as the Antarctic.
University of Wisconsin meteorologist Matthew Lazzara said bluntly about the record-breaking heat in Antarctica: “This phenomenon is definitely not a good sign.” Glaciologist Ted Scambos also said: “Nothing like this has ever been observed in Antarctica.” Antarctic researcher Stefano Di Battista even described, “What was thought to be impossible has happened. , Antarctic climatology will be rewritten as a result”.
Walter Meyer, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States, was also surprised by the high temperature in the Arctic, saying that “the north and south poles have opposite seasons, and the phenomenon of simultaneous melting in the north and south is considered unlikely to occur. ”, adding that “this is definitely not normal.”
And as the earth’s temperature rises and “the Arctic is warming 2 to 3 times faster than the rest of the earth” and the Arctic ice cap gradually decreases, it will lead to an increase in the area of the earth’s oceans and increase the temperature of the Arctic surface and seawater under the effect of reflectivity. If the speed is accelerated, human beings may no longer be able to stop global warming. Although Meier and Lazara both believed that the unusually high temperature in Antarctica was an accidental event, it would be “very worrying” if it happened again or repeatedly.