Economist on the Arctic
Jun 15, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: Surface

The Economist looks at the Arctic - first recent changes to its climate and secondly the effects these might have on the geopolitics in the area. This bit raised a grimace:

A heat map of the world, colour-coded for temperature change, shows the Arctic in sizzling maroon. Since 1951 it has warmed roughly twice as much as the global average. In that period the temperature in Greenland has gone up by 1.5°C, compared with around 0.7°C globally. This disparity is expected to continue. A 2°C increase in global temperatures—which appears inevitable as greenhouse-gas emissions soar—would mean Arctic warming of 3-6°C.

Don't they know that the sizzling maroon is an extrapolation? You would have thought a balanced article might mention these kinds of issues, not to mention the situation in the Antarctic.

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