Yet, despite the wider global warming that scientists are discovering over and over again in new research, there are parts of the Earth that are “warming up” more slowly than others, or even more slowly than the global average, places where the warming effect is weaker, he claims in The Washington Post. article.

We tend to focus on places where temperatures rise faster than anywhere else. Europe, for example, according to World Meteorological Organization, the fastest warming continent, as temperatures there have risen more than twice as fast as the global average over the past 30 years. In the Arctic, the rate of warming is also more than four times faster than in other regions of the globe.

However, there are also places where temperatures are not rising as much, according to the Washington Post, citing climate data collected by the non-governmental organization Berkeley Earth.

The editors of the Washington Post Climate Lab emphasize that the existence of such “cool” locations does not cancel global warming. On the contrary, it confirms climate crisissince we are talking about places where the temperature remains relatively constant, but for the wrong reasons.

OUR East Antarctica this is such a place. While West Antarctica is overheating, the eastern side of Antarctica remains colder. The reason lies in the ozone “hole”, which has decreased, but continues to exist, affecting, among other things, the movement of gas masses and thus making it difficult for cold polar air to escape from the region, according to Robert Rode. NGO Berkeley Earth. At the same time, the mountainous lands of Antarctica help to keep the temperature at a lower level, while in the low-lying maritime Arctic, on the contrary, the mercury column rises faster.

Marine zone south of Greenland, in the North Atlantic, is also one of those where temperatures drop. Water from melting ice in the Arctic eventually passes through the area in question, releasing mercury.

OUR India it also stands out as one of the regions where temperatures do not rise as much as elsewhere. Excessive air pollution is estimated to have contributed to this, as the concentration of atmospheric pollutants limits exposure to solar radiation.

According to the Washington Post