Antarctic Warming? Part 2 -- A letter from a meteorologist on the ground in Antarctica UPDATE 1/25: Mr. Hays has has provided a follow up letter, posted at the bottom of this article. -- Anthony This letter below, reprinted with permission, is from Ross Hays. Ross was a CNN meteorologist for many years. He works for NASA at the Columbia Balloon Facility . Ross Hays with Antarctica's Mount Erebus volcano in the background In that capacity he has spent much time in Antarctica.  He obviously can't speak for his agency but can have an opinion which he shared with several people. It is printed below in entirety, exactly as he sent it to Eric Steig today, the lead author of the University of Washington paper highlighted in a press release yesterday that claims there is a warming in Antarctica. There were some of the pronouncements made in the media, particularly to the Associated Press by Dr. Michael Mann , that marry that paper with "global warming", even though no such claim was made in the press release about the scientific paper itself. I agree with Ross Hays. In my opinion, this press release and subsequent media interviews were done for media attention. The timing is suspicious,  with the upcoming Al Gore's address to congress , he can now say: "We've now learned Antarctica is warming". A Google News search shows about 530 articles on the UW press release in various media. I ask my readers that share this opinion to