Antarctica is heating up fast, a Kansas researcher and other scientists incorrectly claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. No longer is David Braaten constantly cocooned in his red super parka. He left the insta-freeze winds of the Antarctic interior in January.

But as cold as the trip was for the University of Kansas scientist, he recognizes what one discovery after the next has demonstrated this year: It's getting remarkably warm for down there, and it's heating up incredibly fast.
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"The Arctic was the canary in the coal mine, and we didn't pay much attention when it got sick," said Martinson. "Now the penguins are the canaries down there, and they're not looking too good."