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One degree globally, perhaps, but then there can be regional variation that's larger. The Washington Post just ran a long story (https://www.washingtonpost.com
by akuchling 7y ago
One degree globally, perhaps, but then there can be regional variation that's larger. The Washington Post just ran a long story (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-world/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climat...) on a region in Uruguay that's been heating up more rapidly. Quoting from that article:
"Straddling the equator, the tropics are already hot because they receive the most sunlight. As the sun hits the tropics, enormous columns of air rise skyward and then outward. But as greenhouse gases trap more heat, those columns of air are pushed farther toward the north and south poles. Air that rises in the tropics falls back down over the middle latitudes. With a warming planet, though, the air is falling in different places. ... Near Uruguay, the Brazil Current collides with the cold and nutrient-rich Malvinas Current that flows north from waters off Argentina. Where the two currents meet — what is known as the “confluence” — features sudden temperature contrasts and fosters rich fisheries. But that zone, too, is on the move. Research suggests it is shifting southward at a rate of more than 40 miles per decade."