Scientific American has produced a very nice podcast on the Antarctica warming information: podcast.

In doing a lot of reading about this report, I’ve found a few things especially interesting. There’s an ozone hole over much of Antarctica, and where there’s the ozone hole, it’s cooler. But even with the ozone hole, and Antarctica’s fierce winds, average temperatures are up a full degree (and scientists always talk in Celsius degrees, so almost two degrees Farhrenheit) since 1957, when they started keeping records of temperatures there.