South Pole Has Warmest Year Ever

The South Pole experienced its warmest year on record in 2009, according to newly released data from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The average temperature at the South Pole last year was still a bone-chilling minus 54.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 47.9 degrees Celsius) 
in 2009, making it the warmest year on record since 1957, when temperature records began at the South Pole. 
The previous record high was minus 54.4 F (minus 48 C), recorded in 2002, according to Tim Markle, 
senior meteorologist at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Last year was also the second warmest year on record for the planet, according to NASA measurements of global surface temperatures 
released earlier this year. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements since the late 1800s, was 2005.

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