Cooling trends in many
regions of the globe
never make it into
mass media headlines.
About a year ago,
the headline could
have said Greenland
had been cooling
in recent years.
And most (26 of 47)
of the largest
Greenland glaciers
were either stable,
or were gaining ice.
About six months ago,
the headline could have
said the region from
50-70°S has cooled
since the 1980s,
and the
North Atlantic sea
surface temperatures
cooled -1°C
since 2004.
About three months ago,
the headline could have
been about a massive
cooling of -2°C In 8 years
(2008-2016) that affected
large regions of the
North Atlantic.
A recent new study found
the Larsen Ice Shelf
(Antarctic Peninsula)
has cooled more than
-2°C since 1991.
Now there are
three more studies
that show “Eurasia,
North America, Africa,
Australia, South America,
and Greenland experienced
notable cooling trends”
from 2002 to 2013
(Xu et al., 2020)
Both West and East
Antarctica have been
rapidly cooling since
the mid-2000s
(Hrbáček and Uxa, 2020
and
Fatras et al., 2020).
How global is recent
“global warming” ?