Both Abdalati, who wasn't part of the measurement team, and Scambos said this is likely an unusual random reading in a place that hasn't been measured much before and could have been colder or hotter in the past and we wouldn't know. “It does speak to … If you bike to school or work 5 miles on way, which is about what most people would think is not overdoing it, you would save 2/5 of a gallon of gas (assuming your normal car gets 25 mpg in the city). Converting … …

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