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.
RalphieGM says:
July 25, 2010 at 4:42 am
For all you non-scientists, the faster than everywhere else warming is due to the rapid loss of the solar ice cap which is retreating faster than expected.
Holy crumoly! I am so clueless! I didn’t even know there was a Solar Ice-Cap let alone that it was retreating! Thanks for illustrating my ignorance Ralphie!
This is a scream and a huge belly-laugh. I guess local reporters get scripts from Reuters or someone that say: “The name of your continent/nation/state/town goes here.”
Obviously the U.S. government must immediately provide a trillion dollars of emergency relief before everyone in these hotspots dies!
“Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?”
Yes. It’s the Many-Worlds Theory Of Climate Change.
I think it is this Back Radiation thing. Everything is heating up everything else!
I is really like a nuclear chain reaction. So it cannot be photons. Must be neutrons.
JimB says:
July 25, 2010 at 4:20 am
“While that statement is true, the point of the post/article is that when yhou have a bunch of different numbers, they can’t ALL be higher than all the other numbers. Surely that comes through?”
Only one location was claimed to be the fastest in the world (Tibet). The rest were merely above average.
Hawaii is affected as well:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20100711_Hawaii_is_already_seeing_effects_of_global_warming_experts_say.html
“Temperatures at Hawaii’s higher elevations are rising faster than the global average, said Deanna Spooner, coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative.
“It’s getting hotter here faster than anywhere else in the world up in the upper elevations,” Spooner said at the Honolulu meeting of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.”
Ban-Ki Moon, head of the UN, himself confirmed in 2009 that the Arctic is warming faster than any other place:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2009/0904/hey-global-warming-skeptics-take-your-heads-out-of-the-sand
So the race between Tibet, Hawaii and the Arctic seems to be heating up…
Maybe if Al Gore quit visiting ….masseuses, and went back home to his wife the chill would….never mind.
Sorry that’s Ban Ki-Moon, not Ban-Ki Moon.
On a related note, did somebody mention Western Siberia? No? Because, you see,
“Western Siberia is heating up faster than anywhere else in the world, having experienced a rise of some 3C in the past 40 years.”
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/hmmmmm-over-45-billion-people-could-die-from-global-warming-related-causes-by-2012-so-do-you-agr/question-1021155/
Let alone Utah. Did we have Utah? ah yeah, American West, ok we’re running out of places.
“Half this game is ninety percent mental.” – Yogi Berra
“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)
It seems that there is no agreement about what the opposite of science is. I believe that the language needs a new word. A few weeks ago my former Wassila neighbor, Gov Palin, invented “refudiate”. In an attempt to keep up with the Palin’s I propose the term “Sciaganda”. (def 1) Any mass communication intended to help or injure a person, institution, or cause, that uses, as a primary tactic, the perversion of the methods, nomenclature and credentials of science, in order enhance the perceived veracity of those communications.
(def 2.) The use of scientific methods, nomenclature and credentials to promote falsehoods of any kind.
The desperate current circumstances require reformulation of old truths. Clearly, there is a lot of nationalist ego involved in being warmer at any here than at anywhere else. We need a new and au currant “Axis of Much Warmer” to replace the previous and no longer fashionable, “Axis of Just as Evil,” (posted below).
No country can hold up its head internationally, these days, unless it is imminently threatened by some thermal disaster. Uncontrolled international competition in goodness of heat can be dangerous, possibly leading to partisan fist fights among climatologists, roused to nationalist jealousy at IPCC meetings. Can’t have that.
Order must be brought. Those inspired to create the new international hierarchy of hothouse heroes should move quickly, and can use the Axis of Just as Evil as a paradigmatic template.
Tibet, Kuwait and Spain seem good candidates to preempt everyone else, forming the enviable Axis of the Much Warmers. The Arctic and Antarctic, clearly stellar performers, have no governments to abscond the international limelight for them, more’s the pity.
Axis of Evil by Andrew Marlatt link here
[edited for brevity and copyright ~mod]
All the unusual stuff happens where few people live to comment on it. Except there was the “U.S. West warming faster than rest of world: study” to test my theory. On page iv of the report I found this gem,
“For this report, RMCO found that during the 2003 through 2007 period, the 11 western states averaged 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the region’s 20th century average. That is 0.7 degrees, or 70 percent, more warming than for the world as a whole. And scientists have confirmed that most of the recent warming in the West has been caused by human emissions of heat-trapping gases.”
RMCO=Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.
In the heart of the hot zone was this thermometer:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/14/photos-noaas-carefree-climate-station/
I love how the time frame for “climate” is now four years. Talk about cherry picking!
Oh, and its getting really dry too. Although, if my lawn in MN “teleconnects” with stuff 1200 km to the west, the West is getting pretty wet this year.
You know, when the comedians start to pile on, the end is near….just ask Rod Blagojevich! The end-game is always interesting to watch…
First of all I would like to thank Anthony and all the other posters at this site, you folks have taught me an important lesson. “Think, don’t just accept”.
I am still a fence sitter, but I am leaning towards your position. Thanks to your blog and especially the comments, I have been educated beyond belief.
You have even brought my family closer together, we are all betting on the sea ice extent, and I have never received so many calls from them. Who would of thought, I would get excited about the sea ice chart.
P.S. now that I am thinking is there a evolution blog? survivor of the fittest seems weak. (not intelligent design)
Graeme W says:
July 24, 2010 at 10:36 pm
As far as I can tell, that leaves Canada and Greenland to be vastly colder than the worldwide average….
But we all KNOW Greenland is shrinking fatser than expected so it must be Canada!
Steve Goddard @ur momisugly 4:57am shows clearly the link between cooling and socialist nirvanas like Madagascar and Zimbabwe.
So there you have it – it is warming faster almost everywhere.
Alan Clark: July 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Holy crumoly! I am so clueless! I didn’t even know there was a Solar Ice-Cap let alone that it was retreating! Thanks for illustrating my ignorance Ralphie!
It’s not surprising so few people know of the existence of the Solar Ice Cap, since it only forms on the sun at night…
ianpp says:
July 25, 2010 at 9:45 pm
“I have been educated beyond belief.”
And that is where you end up when you leave the CAGW religion behind…
My state’s hotter than your state!
Bill Tuttle says:
July 26, 2010 at 2:48 am
Alan Clark: July 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Holy crumoly! I am so clueless! I didn’t even know there was a Solar Ice-Cap let alone that it was retreating! Thanks for illustrating my ignorance Ralphie!
It’s not surprising so few people know of the existence of the Solar Ice Cap, since it only forms on the sun at night…
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However, keen observers may see the remnants evaporating in a flash of blue-green at dawn, just as the top of the sun peeks over the horizon.
Lucy Skywalker says:
July 25, 2010 at 6:22 am
Thanks for that link Lucy . . phew! quite a read but fascinating and informative.
I couldn’t put it down ( or whatever the laptop equivalent might be 🙂 ) and I learned a lot.
BTW , I am still going through link after link , it is never ending.
I just come from the standpoint that “how can a gas being 0.038% of our atmosphere be a cause of a catastrophe”. I was there 10 years ago and so far nothing has changed my opinion.
“I, for one, have much better things to do. – gavin”
As if.
Bill Marsh says:
July 25, 2010 at 7:10 am
Oh come on. Isn’t this just a demonstration of a positive feedback cycle that the AGW crowd has been talking about all these years?
You got it, Bill
A nice link collection!
My first impression was: there is no global warming…