'Scientific data keeps showing that the situation is more urgent than we had previously thought.'
Julia ConleyScientists have been underestimating how rapidly the Arctic is heating up compared to the Earth as a whole, according to a new study which found the region is growing hotter nearly four times faster than the global average.
"We were frustrated by the fact that there's this saying that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the globe. But when you look at the data, you can easily see that it is close to four."that between 1979, when advanced satellite measurements of global temperatures began, and 2021, the icy northern region warmed 3.8 times faster than the rest of the planet—nearly twice the rate that had long been estimated.
"We were frustrated by the fact that there's this saying that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the globe," Mika Rantanen, the lead author of the study,Rantanen and his colleagues began examining the issue after heat waves in Siberia drew international attention.
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