BBC Warming Arctic Claims Are Fake News: Claim ‘warming four times faster than anywhere else’ — Reality Check: ‘Temperatures in the Arctic have been stable for the last two decades’
BBC Warming Arctic Claims Are Fake News
By Paul Homewood
The BBC are at it again!
Their latest report about Norway, “Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic”, claims:
Climate scientists say the Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else. This impacts ecosystems, wildlife and local populations
In reality temperatures in the Arctic have been stable for the last two decades. The Arctic is not “warming” at all.
Looking further back, temperatures were at similar levels to now in the 1930s and 40s. In between that era and now, there was a plunge in temperatures, followed by a recovery:
https://www.climate4you.com/
We see the same cyclical pattern in northern Norway too:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/STATIONS_v4/tmp_NO000001026_15_0_1/station.png
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