Evan Bernstein

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1,829 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Jun

Evan Bernstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #872 - Mar 26 2022 podcast

That's 41 degrees Fahrenheit. voice-verified

So it must be on kind of the outer fringes of Antarctica. voice-verified

This is unprecedented. voice-verified

We're talking about measurements representing a 40 degree Celsius above normal reading. voice-verified

That is ginormous. voice-verified

And it really wasn't just this sudden blip or anomalous spike that took place over the course of an hour or two hours or something. voice-verified

That was an average temperature increase that occurred over a three-day period. voice-verified

One person, geoscientist Jonathan Weil, shared on his Twitter that voice-verified

that the temperature measured was 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record. voice-verified

So these are record-setting temperatures that they're talking about. voice-verified

It's completely unprecedented, he's quoted as saying, and it upends our expectations about the Antarctic climate system. voice-verified

Antarctic climatology has been rewritten, said Stefano Di Battista, who's a researcher who has published studies on Antarctic temperatures, and has said that such anomalies would have been considered impossible and unthinkable voice-verified

Before they actually occurred. voice-verified

Okay, but what actually – so, okay, what caused it? voice-verified

Here's what they think caused it. voice-verified

Atmospheric rivers. voice-verified

Have we talked about this on the show before? voice-verified

So, we know what rivers are, water rivers, you know, the Amazon or whatnot. voice-verified

But in the atmosphere, the atmosphere has rivers, and these were discovered in the late 1990s. voice-verified

So, it's kind of – voice-verified

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