Current Events: Antarctica Warm Up

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/travel/feat-antarctica-highest-temperature-ever-recorded/index.html

Headline: Antarctica hits 63 degrees, believed to be a record

Topic: 63.5 degrees was recorded in Antarctica on March 24, 2015.

Summary:

• The temp. was recorded at Argentina's Esperanza Base
•  The World Meteorological Organization will collect relevant evidence
• The World Meteorological Organization will check equipment to make sure:

                  a. it was in good working condition

                  b. the correct monitoring procedures were followed

                  c. it was placed in correct place

                  d. temp. matches corresponding results from other weather station

• Researchers are carefully watching the weather changes in Antarctica

Analysis:

If Antarctica is 60 degrees, there is a serious problem. Antarctica should never reach 30 degrees, let alone 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The warm up of Antarctica just screams global warming. The overuse of polluting agents in our normal everyday lives has gotten out of hand. There is a serious problem now. The Earth's atmospheric temperature is changing because of the polluting agents of car, bus and factory exhaust. Our laziness is changing the Earth both geographically and atmospherically. The warm up of Antarctica is only the beginning of Earth's change. Soon, the Earth will warm up and books like The Maze Runner and the rest of its series will no longer seem so far-fetched; they will be our reality whether we except it or not.