Global warming in Alaska tricked computer to DELETE data

Temperatures in the Arctic have been rising so fast in recent decades they have confused a computer designed to measure them. Scientists monitoring a site in Alaska have found that an algorithm at the weather station, which has been recording temperatures for nearly 100 years, deleted all of its data from 2017, and even some from 2016. In what the experts are now calling an'ironic exclamation point' to rapid climate change, the algorithm flagged the abnormal temperatures observed at the station, as it assumed they were too high to be accurate. When scientists set out at the beginning of December to review the previous month's climate data, they noticed something'odd': everything from Utqiaġvik, Alaska was missing. The data from 2017 and some of 2016 had been flagged as artificial.