Scientists from Brazil have documented the highest temperature ever measured in the southern continent • "See warming at many measurement points" • Concern - sea level rise

• Glaciers in the Antarctic // Photo: GettyImages

Cause for concern? Brazilian scientists on Seymour Island in Antarctica have measured a temperature of 20.75 degrees - the highest temperature ever measured on the continent, and for the first time since the beginning of the continent's temperature measurements exceeded 20 degrees. A figure, published this evening (Thursday) in the British Guardian newspaper, was measured last Sunday.

The measurement joins a previous alarming measure, measured last Friday by a team of Argentine researchers at a research station located on the mainland itself, rather than on the island of Brazilian scientists, and with a temperature of 18.3 degrees Celsius - the highest temperature ever measured on the continent itself.

These data are in line with an alarming trend in the southern continent whose temperature has risen an average of 3 degrees Celsius since measurements began. It should be noted that February is the hottest month in the southern continent and is the summer peak of it.

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"We see a warming trend in many research stations, but we have never seen anything like it," said Carlos Shafir, who works as a researcher at the Brazilian research station. Shafir added that temperatures in the James Ross Islands have climbed radically over the past decade.

"There is climate change in the atmosphere, and it is affecting the ice and ocean areas. Everything is linked," he added.

Climate change is felt mainly on the west side of the continent, where the warming oceans are spreading huge glaciers, and the concern is that continued rising temperatures will lead to significant sea level rise worldwide.