{"id":1603,"date":"2020-02-24T04:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2020-02-24T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T17:56:04","slug":"antarctica-getting-warmer-24-march-1947-temperatures-as-high-as-50-degrees-above-zero-fahrenheit-with-rain-and-slush-near-the-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica Getting Warmer. 24 March 1947. “temperatures as high as 50 degrees above zero fahrenheit with rain and slush near the North Pole.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
Antarctica Getting Warmer (1947, March 24). Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 – 1949)<\/i>, p. 3. Retrieved February 24, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/195082030?searchTerm=antarctic%20warmer&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
(By ROGER D. GREENE). WASHINGTON (A.P.)<\/div>\n
Is the vast frozen dead “continent” of Antarctica slowly warming up again towards life?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
American scientists have been pondering that question since news dispatches described the mild weather encountered by Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s U-S. Navy expedition at the bottom of the World.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
Pending the return of Admiral Byrd with factual data, Washington scientists, cautiously<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
avoided making any flat predictions that the great frozen wastes may be thawing towards<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
a slow re-awakening of life.<\/div>\n
Charles Hubbard, noted Arctic explorer, now attached to the U.S. Weather Bureau, told a re-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
porter he had experienced temperatures as high as 50 degrees above zero fahrenheit with<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
rain and slush near the North Pole.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
But of course the North Pole is warmer because it’s at sea level while the South Pole is on a<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
10,000ft plateau whipped by 100 mile-an-hour winds, he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
J. Glenn Dyer, who accompanied Byrd as a cartologist on the 1939-41 Antarctic- expedition,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
said that during his stay in the south polar region “we had only three or four days of bright sun<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
shine with the temperature at 30 to 32 degrees above zero.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
“If the South Pole is warming up,” he added, “it will take many, many years. These things do not happen overnight.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Long ago \u2014 perhaps 100 million years in the prehistoric past \u2014 the South pole regions flourished in warm and possibly even tropical weather.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
COAL DEPOSITS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Plants and trees, including a species like the California, sequoia, thrived in the warm polar sun<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
shine and left their heritage in coal deposits now locked deep beneath the 6 million square-mile<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
wilderness of snow and ice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Then something happened. A convolution of nature sent 10,000 foot mountains rising from the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
lowlands and transformed it into the highest and coldest continent on earth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
‘It was the rise of these mountains,’ says Wilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Polar explorer, “that<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
gathered the snow which buried vegetation, killed the animals and made that continent the most nearly dead in the world.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Scientists know that the South Polar ice cap is slowly melting, since the earth is at the end of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
an ice age at present. Twelve years ago, returning from his second Antarctic expedition, Admiral Byrd reported it was “slightly warmer” on the average than during his first trip in 1928-29.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Admiral Byrd recorded an average of 42 degrees below zero on the first visit, with the mercury<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
reaching 35 above zero only once.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
On the next trip, he found the mean temperature was a few degrees closer to zero and the high<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
of 35 above was noted several times.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antarctica Getting Warmer (1947, March 24). Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 – 1949), p. 3. Retrieved February 24, 2020, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[273,56,574,364,313,458,126,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}