Globe Warming Faster Than Global Average
- I heard about this latest fad, and curious, tried it: type in the words “warming faster than average” or “warming twice as fast as average” or some variation thereof into a search engine.
I got an interesting list of the places on the globe the mainstream media reports to be warming faster than the global average.
- Britain
- Singapore
- The Sierra Mountains
- The Rocky Mountains
- all other mountains
- all lakes
- The Arctic
- The North Sea
- Greenland
- Finland
- Canada
- The American Midwest and parts of the Northeast
- National Parks
- The southwest coast of India
I also get a high number of returns from blogs and comments who are following the same fad I am, and reporting their results.
Technically, I suppose, if all land masses were warming faster than the sea, ergo the northern hemisphere were warming faster than the southern, then, logically, every bit of dry land in the northern hemisphere would be above the global average.
On the other hand, as the news would have it, larger subset of the places warming faster than the global average, are the places warming twice as fast as the global average.
In effect, the whole globe is warming faster then the global average.
I did not find any results for places which were warming more slowly than the global average. This may have been due to the specific search terms I used.
Draw your own conclusion.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
