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Respond to Time.com Writer Cites Temperature at North Pole, Alaska As From THE North Pole Tom Blumer Share it Tweet it the North Pole. The only current evidence of Sifferlin's original grievous error at Time.com is a deliberately vague correction at the bottom of her post "This article originally misidentified a temperature reading as belonging to the North Pole." Fortunately, ever-alert blogger Patterico excerpted the post as originally written North Pole Unfrozen as Temperature Soars The temperature in the North Pole hit 42 degrees Fahrenheit which Discovery News says is 50 degrees higher than average for this time of year. Storms over Iceland and Greenland, fairly common in winter, are pushing warmer air to the Arctic.tweeted evidence originally had The temperature at the earth's North Pole briefly topped the freezing point, but not for long. Early this afternoon, Maue tweeted "Hope you enjoyed the North Pole heat-wave -- now back to normal programming down to -25°F ... warm up next week." The temperature at earth's North Pole appears to have topped out at about 34ªF (1ªC) UK Telegraph cites Maue while indicating, in its words, that "some datasets suggested temperatures hit 0.7C at the North Pole on Wednesday, although there was a large range of uncertainty." This event is not unprecedented. Time.com's revised post indicates that "There have reportedly only been three other times since 1948 that temperatures in the North Pole have hit or risen above freezing in December." describes herself Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com newsbusters.org
