The southernmost continent is not insulated from extreme weather associated with human-caused climate change, according to a new paper in Frontiers in EnvironmentalScience.  “The largest heat wave in the world, in terms of deviation from normal temperature, took place in Antarctica last year,” says Martin Siegert, a glaciologist, professor of geosciences at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the paper. Temperatures, which usually average around -50C, have soared to -10C. "It's absolutely unheard of to have a heatwave of this magnitude." This document attempts to create a coherent picture of the place that was strange in the area climate change.