.. http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/n...emp14.xml&Sheet=/news/2002/01/14/ixworld.html most interesting quote from this..."a drop in Antarctic temperatures is a puzzle because most climate models suggest that polar regions should respond first and most rapidly to worldwide temperature changes. previous claims that the Anarctic is warming may have been skewed because the measurements were taken largelon on the Antarctic Peninsula, which extends toward South America and which is warming five times more quickly than the rest of the world."