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Adam Scaife

Professor, University of Exeter

Expertise: Climate variability
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Observed trend in temperature from 1900 to 2012; global warming does not mean the whole planet heats evenly

Global warming doesn’t mean everywhere is warming at the same rate, here’s why

Global warming may mean something different than you think. One misconception is that global warming means ‘all places on Earth are warming equally’, but this is not the case. In reality, global warming means that average global temperatures are rising over decades or more. Earth’s uneven heating means that some places warm faster or slower than the average global temperature rise over a given period.