Climate change research shows pockets of warming around world - Politics - CBC News

Climate change research shows pockets of warming around world - Politics - CBC News: "The world is getting warmer, but it's not happening at same pace around the globe, according to research by scientists at Florida State University.

The research also suggests the greatest warming is happening in a swath of the world including Canada. 

The team of four scientists used new techniques to measure the short- and long-term fluctuations in land and surface air temperatures from the year 1900 onward.

This let them show for the first time in more detail how different regions around the world have different rates of warming and, in some cases, cooling.

The team from FSU's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) was able to add more detail to what scientists already know about how Earth is warming, said Zhaohua Wu, one of the lead authors of the study.

Warming not uniform

"We tried to fill in the gaps," Wu said in a phone interview with CBC News.

"What is significant is that it is not uniform.""



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