Up Or Down? Land Surface Study Shows Varying Global Warming Trends
A new study has created the first detailed look at global land surface warming trends over the last 100 years, illustrating precisely when and where different areas of the world started to warm up or cool down. Result: the world is indeed getting warmer but not everywhere and not at the same rate. This probably took a few scientists by surprise and many journalists, but outside the IPCC this is exactly what was known to be happening.. "Global warming was not as understood as we thought," said Zhaohua Wu, an assistant professor of meteorology at Florida State University, who led a team of climate researchers that used an analysis method newly developed to examine land surface temperature trends from 1900 onward for the entire globe, minus Antarctica. read more