The data are here. Here's a little smoother presentation of the data, in terms of anomalies relative to 1957-1986:Remember that quaint time when folks thought Antarctica was cooling?— Eric Steig (@ericsteig) January 20, 2019
The last 10 years at South Pole have been on average almost 1°C warmer than the previous 52. This year was 2°C warmer than average. It may sound trivial, but it's now warming as fast as nearly anywhere else. pic.twitter.com/bnZQ5zUhkv
It's just one location -- Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station -- so it can't speak for the whole continent, and it's almost two miles in elevation, but it's still interesting.
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My bet is that it regresses back to the mean over the next 10 years.
Any particular reason(s) why?
Just a hunch. Eric Steig may have good reason to believe that something happened in the year 2000 to reverse the apparent downward trend, but I don't see it just looking at the graph. To me it just looks like fluctuations around a flat trend.
Good point. The current spike is the only one in 60 years that was above a previous spike. I'll keep track and see how it looks in a year or so.
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