Faster than everyplace else…

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Antarctica from Steig et al 2009, one of the “places warming faster than everyplace else”

Tom Nelson runs a great aggregator blog. he’s got his pulse on climate news all over the globe. He’s also got a keen eye for news detail and offers some interesting insights. I had to chuckle then when he pointed out this hilarious media paradox:

Settled science: Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?

[Africa: Allegedly warming faster than the global average]

Prof Gordon Conway, the outgoing chief scientist at the British government’s Department for International Development, and former head of the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, said in a scientific paper that the continent is already warming faster than the global average

North Pole Heating Faster than anywhere else

Many scientists seem mystified as to why the North Polar region is warming up several times faster than the rest of the planet.

Australia warming faster than rest of globe, climate report says

Kuwait: Alarm as Gulf waters warm three times faster than average

The seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay has been increasing at three times the global average rate since 1985

Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world – Times Online

AIR temperatures above the entire frozen continent of Antarctica have risen three times faster than the rest of the world during the past 30 years.

Tibet warming up faster than anywhere in the world | Reuters

(Reuters) – Tibet is warming up faster than anywhere else in the world, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

European temperatures rising faster than world average, report says – The New York Times

Sundarbans water warming faster than global average

In the Sundarbans, surface water temperature has been rising at the rate of 0.5 degree Celsius per decade over the past three decades, eight times the rate of global warming, says a new study.

Climate change heating up China faster than rest of the world – report

In a new report, the China Meteorological Administration now says climate change is heating up the People’s Republic faster than the rest of the world

Spain warming faster than rest of northern hemisphere: study

The country has experienced average temperature increases of 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade since 1975, a rate that is “50 percent superior to the average of nations in the northern hemisphere”, the study by the Spanish branch of the Clivar research network found.

U.S. West warming faster than rest of world: study

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The U.S. West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities, an environmental group said on Thursday.

A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open « Climate Audit

Four of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.

Global warming is occurring twice as fast in the Arctic as in the rest of the world

Lake Superior is Warming [much stronger than the global average]

The really striking thing here is that the long-term trend in Superior is so much stronger than the global average. Well, we know that the upper midwest is warming more rapidly than the global average, but not this much more rapidly.

Himalayas warming faster than global average

New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) Northwestern Himalayas has become 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer in the last 100 years, a far higher level of warming than the 0.5-1.1 degrees for the rest of the globe, Indian scientists have found.

[Korean Peninsula]: Allegedly warming twice the global average]

According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, the climate has been warming on the Korean Peninsula twice more rapidly than in the rest of the world over the past century.

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Bill Jamison
July 24, 2010 10:00 pm

Well this certainly confirms that it’s worse that we thought! Everywhere is warming faster than anywhere else. We’re doooooomed I tell ya, doooooomed!

SFTor
July 24, 2010 10:01 pm

Kind of like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.

July 24, 2010 10:12 pm

So if there are so many places warming (much, much and much) faster than the average than there must be equal amount of places that show a (much, much and much) faster cooling trend, or a lot more places that show a slight cooling or at least do not warm at all… oh my gosh, that can’t be right.

July 24, 2010 10:28 pm

You must all realize by now that it is much worse than we thought!!!

chris Riley
July 24, 2010 10:30 pm

When each region’s temperature trend is measured across a time frame that is chosen to maximize the warming in that region, and that warming is contrasted with the world average, then it would be expected that every region, or nearly every region would be warming faster than the rest of the world. What we are seeing here is not bad science it is the opposite of science (whatever that is called).

Graeme W
July 24, 2010 10:36 pm

As far as I can tell, that leaves Canada and Greenland to be vastly colder than the worldwide average….

July 24, 2010 10:38 pm

Since on average the planet is warming at only a trivial rate, any place with recorded warming that is a smidgen over trivial is immediately vaulted into the headlines. This is, I believe, what is meant by man-made warming.

gallopingcamel
July 24, 2010 10:40 pm

It’s like Lake Woebegone where all the children are above average.

Doug in Dunedin
July 24, 2010 10:42 pm

None of this is true. New Zealand is warming faster than any of these!
Earlier in 2007, NIWA produced a web page, followed by a printed brochure, with a graph showing that New Zealand had already warmed by an amount far in excess of global averages. The web page claimed a temperature increase of 1.1C during the 144 years of Met Service records, and a 0.92°C trend during the 20th century.
See ha boo!

gallopingcamel
July 24, 2010 10:43 pm

SFTor, apparently we both listen to Garrison Keilor on Public Radio!

David Charles
July 24, 2010 10:45 pm

Is there a World Cup for the country that “warms” the most? Does Al Gore present it?

DJ Meredith
July 24, 2010 10:46 pm

Just more proof that 5/4 of all AGW alarmists don’t understand fractions.

DR
July 24, 2010 10:50 pm

Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.- Yogi Berra

July 24, 2010 10:53 pm

That’s just mean…

Tesla_x
July 24, 2010 11:10 pm

So many different newsrags pushing the same BS.
It is called a Climate BullShit Conspiracy (or CBC for short).
The News industry has no shame…and has no credibility anymore.

rbateman
July 24, 2010 11:17 pm

Remind me of Wargames. “Want to play Global ThermoClimactic Warming?”
It’s all on a computer screen.

Doug in Seattle
July 24, 2010 11:17 pm

Almost like there was some kind of contest to see who was most alarmist.
We are the warmest … No way, we are … Hah, got you all beat, we are warming faster!

StuartMcL
July 24, 2010 11:20 pm

Except for the Gulf (a narrow waterway surrounded by land) and the Artic(which seems to be mainly extrapolated from land based weather stations) , all of these faster warming places are on land. That means that the 70% of the globe covered in water must be warming much slower (if at all).
Could it be that a combination of land use, urbanisation, poor siting of recording stations etc, etc on land are far more important factors in the increasing temperature record that the level of CO2 which is increasing at the same rate over both land and ocean. Yet another nail in the “greenhouse gas” coffin?

July 24, 2010 11:32 pm

This reminds me of my school governor who said she would never cease trying until every child was above average.

July 24, 2010 11:33 pm

Antony, mods this needs to go on face book!
This summer I can tell you it was hotter in my house than any where out side on the planet!
It is worse that they thought!
Tim

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