Record -89.2 Celsius during Global Warming

By Karl J. Hansen

The two Danes, Morten Grundsøe (32) and Jens Erik Nielsen (56), will ski to the South Pole to satisfy their "polar fever" and to advertise CO2 as a pollutant which has to be eradicated.  If they get someone to fly them from South America to the coast of Antarctica they will leave as soon as possible.  They will ski unassisted during the Antarctic summer on a 1,150Km path to the South Pole with ETA beginning of January 2010.  Let us wish them luck in their attempt to go in the great Dane Mylius Eriksen's footsteps.  Ludvig Mylius Eriksen (known by his middle name Mylius) was a famous Danish explorer who bravely navigated previously uncharted areas of Greenland back in 1902 to 1904, whereby Denmark got the right to Greenland.

As I mentioned above, this expedition is also a bit of propaganda for the fight to ban the most important trace gas we have in the atmosphere.  A pretty futile ban, because we contribute less than 5% to the current rise in CO2.  It is impressive that we, despite being unable to prove higher levels of CO2 as influential to the average global temperature, still cannot see the proven benefit to the environment.

It is remarkable that, in a time of "alarming" global warming from late 70's to 1998, we recorded the lowest temperature ever measured on this planet.  This was July 21st 1983 when the temperature at the Russian Antarctic station Vostok fell to -89.2C or -193F.  If the global warming had been so extreme during the and of last century, as proclaimed by AGW believers, why is it then that we in the same century, right at the steep end of the hockey stick, reach such a staggering low temperature?  Granted, extreme low temperatures on Antarctica does not necessarily disprove any high temperature extremity.  However, it makes you think a bit, does it not?