Arctic still heating up twice as fast as rest of planet
Annual average temperatures have continued to rise for Arctic as a whole throughout the recent slowdown in the pace of global warming, according to a new analysis.
If global warming has paused, someone forgot to tell the Arctic.
Annual average temperatures have continued to rise for the region as a whole throughout the recent slowdown in the pace of warming globally, according to a new analysis of conditions above 60 degrees north latitude.
Over the past five years, temperatures in the autumn and early winter have been warmer all across the Arctic than they were for the same period during the last 20 years of the 20th century, leading an international team of researchers producing the report to conclude that these Arctic-wide conditions "are an indication that the early 21st century temperature increase in the Arctic is due to global warming rather than natural variability."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2014/1217/Arctic-still-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-rest-of-planet