The Arctic and the Barents region heating up faster than previously thought

The temperature in the Arctic circle is increasing approximately four times faster than the average for the planet, the Meteorological Institute of Finland reported on the results of long-term observations.
Based on previous studies conducted by other organizations, it was assumed that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the world average.
So, from 1979 to 2021, warming in high latitudes proceeded at an approximate rate of 0.75 °C per ten years. At the same time, in the rest of the world, this indicator was about 0.19 °C.
At the same time, Finnish meteorologists are convinced that in some Arctic regions this trend is even more pronounced. According to the institute, the air temperature over the Barents Sea grew seven times faster than in the world as a whole. It is assumed that the reason for this is the reduction in the area of sea ice in this water area, which well reflects solar radiation.
According to Finnish scientists, these findings indicate a serious underestimation of the scale of climate change in the macroregion. However, now it is difficult to objectively judge the nature of this trend.
There is a broad consensus in the West regarding the definition of climate change as, firstly, warming and, secondly, as a predominantly anthropogenic phenomenon.
The position of Russian climatologists is less categorical: the climate is changing, but this process is nonlinear and difficult to predict, and the human contribution to climate change may not be decisive, porarctic.ru notes.

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