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Media Crazed: No, Every Region Can’t Be Warming Faster Than Everywhere Else

Outlets push the same lazy climate narrative about every country and region being hotter than the global average.

by Anthony Watts
August 07, 2025, 8:54 AM
in Extreme Weather, Media, News and Opinion, Science
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Warming faster headlines
Over the past several years, the mainstream media has repeated tired headlines declaring that “Region X is warming twice (or more) as fast as the rest of the world.” [emphasis, links added]

This is false, but it may not be immediately apparent why.

These sensational comparisons present regional warming rates out of context. They exoticize statistical quirks to generate fear, with scant attention to uncertainties, baseline differences, or the urban heat island effect.

Recent headline examples include:

  • “Climate change heating up Canada 2× faster than ‘global rate’: expert” – Global News
  • America’s National Parks Are Warming Twice As Fast As The U.S. Here’s What That Could Mean In The Future – The Weather Channel

  • “Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average – WMO” – FoxWeather, citing WMO/Copernicus

  • “Russia is warming disproportionately fast … average temperatures in Russia rose at more than double the rate seen worldwide between 1976 and 2018” – The Moscow Times
  • “Russia warming 2.5 times quicker than global average: ministry” – Phys.org summarizing Russian ministry data
  • “Asia warming twice as fast as global average, warns WMO report” – Times of India on Asia’s pace

According to the John Locke Foundation, additional lists abundantly claim similar findings for many regions—Africa, the Mediterranean, India, Pakistan, China, West Asia, Singapore, Japan, even Antarctica—each reportedly warming “faster than the global average,” sometimes “twice,” “three times,” or even “four times” faster.

These headlines all share the same lazy narrative template: choose a region, compare its trend to a global average, trumpet the difference, and ignore any nuance.

If multiple regions are ALL warming twice as fast, the global average would have to be higher; they can’t all be twice the average.

But note the absurdity: nearly simultaneous claims that Canada, Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, and more are all warming “twice as fast” or more than the rest of the world.

That’s mathematically incoherent.

If multiple regions are all warming twice as fast, the global average would have to be higher, so they couldn’t all be twice the average.

There are several major problems with these headlines, but the main issues are these:

  1. Statistical framing artifacts
    Regions with more land area, especially high‑latitude or Arctic‑bordering ones, tend to warm faster than oceans. Land heats more rapidly, and ice–albedo feedback amplifies warming at the poles. Because much of Earth is ocean—which warms more slowly—the global average is diluted. Comparing that low average to a land‑heavy region naturally yields a large multiplier. But that doesn’t mean those regions are mysteriously overheating. It just reflects known physical geography.
  2. Urban Heat Island (UHI) & infrastructure growth
    Many cited trends include data aggregated over decades in countries undergoing rapid development. Canada, Russia, Europe, and Asia have seen major urban expansion. Asphalt, concrete, power plants, and population density raise local ambient temperatures. Weather stations near growing cities or industrial zones record higher trends, but it is not purely atmospheric warming. Yet media coverage only rarely mentions UHI, station siting, or energy‑waste heat as contributing factors.
  3. Baseline and period selection
    Different studies use different baselines (e.g., 1948‑2016 vs. 1991‑2021) and start dates. That choice can influence rate estimates: comparing post‑1980 data (when polar amplification accelerated) against mid-century baselines inflates the seeming trend. Similarly, countries with older data records may sample different periods than global averages. The media fails to specify these comparators, creating the illusion of uniformity.
  4. Sampling bias and sparse coverage
    In remote regions like Siberia, northern Canada, or Antarctic margins, station density is low. Sparse high‑latitude data skew averages when heavily weighted, despite large uncertainty bands. Aggregating such data into national means exaggerates variability versus well‑monitored global surface networks.

Looking at Canada, Europe, Russia, Asia, and even the microcosm of National Parks, all touted as warming faster than the rest of the world, illustrates the variance between records.

First, looking at Canada, where cited figures (≈1.7 °C warming versus ~0.8 °C globally between mid‑century and the 2010s) derive heavily from Arctic amplification zones and urbanizing southern cities.

UHI and expanding energy use in cities like Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver skew the national trend upward, especially when northern areas lack dense station coverage.

In Europe, the WMO/Copernicus report estimates a warming trend of roughly +0.5 °C per decade on land vs ~+0.2 °C globally since the 1980s. But Europe includes high‑latitude zones plus dense urban centers.

Coastal ocean areas are cooler and are not equally counted in the continental land average. Declining snow cover in some areas and changing albedo amplify warming readings in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Again, urbanization influences the station bias.

Official Russian ministry data report warming at ≈0.42 °C per decade since 1976, or 2.5× the global trend (~0.17 °C). But Russia spans the Arctic land mass and has been undergoing massive infrastructure projects.

UHI impacts, heating systems, industrial development, and station siting biases in growing cities all amplify the perceived warming rate. Also, station coverage in Siberia is scant, which leads to significant uncertainty in that part of the world.

Looking at Asia, the recent WMO‑Asia report claims Asia warmed nearly twice the global average (≈1.04 °C above the 1991‑2020 baseline in 2024). But Asia is massive and heterogeneous, as in, there is a wide range of geography and urban vs. rural zones in the South, Southeast, Mid‑latitudes, and high‑altitude zones.

There has been extensive urbanization across India, China, and Southeast Asia. Asian megacities certainly raise local temperature readings. The report lumps multiple region types into one, “Asia,” hiding all of that internal variation and urban effects.

The claim from The Weather Channel that “America’s National Parks Are Warming Twice As Fast As The U.S.” is yet another example of the media’s penchant for cherry-picking regional trends and comparing them to a diluted national average to generate an alarming headline.

Much like the dubious “twice as fast” claims made for Canada, Russia, Europe, and Asia, this framing is statistically misleading—especially when it leans heavily on the inclusion of Alaska’s Arctic parks, where natural polar amplification is well established, and on park locations in mountains and deserts that are more sensitive to temperature swings.

By focusing only on select National Parks and amplifying their trends, the article stokes public anxiety without any context, glossing over the more mundane reality that regional rates in the U.S. will always differ due to geography, data coverage, and the simple fact that the “global average temperature” is defined by the vast, slow-warming oceans and non-park lands.

The result is a scare tactic headline that does far more to inflame than to inform.

This is like every student claiming they scored higher than the class average.

Again, if every region is proclaimed to warm faster than the global average, then the global average would rise, contradicting the media’s premise. This is like every student claiming they scored higher than the class average.

The media fail to report uncertainty in the datasets, ignore that land warms faster than oceans, almost always ignore the urban heat island effect and issues with station siting, gloss over disparities like start and end dates for datasets, and treat each region’s warming separately while ignoring trends elsewhere.

These repetitive, formulaic “Region X warming twice as fast as global average” headlines aren’t helping to educate the public about global warming; it really is just statistical sensationalism.

All of the claims can’t be true in aggregate, but somehow the media is utterly incurious about how every location can be warming faster than every other location.

This is a failure of journalism across the board; every time one of these headlines goes out without the proper nuances, it should be embarrassing for the journalists involved.

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  1. Ken Irwin says:
    3 months ago

    Another example based on a headline – “Antarctic Heating Up 4 Times Faster Than Average” (Sky News August 2022)
    If global average temperatures have risen from 15.0°C to 15.1°C “here” and Antarctic temperatures have risen from (say) minus 30°C to minus 29.6°C i.e. 0.4° “hotter” than average “there”
    Then the ignorant thermogeddonists claim that “there” has risen 0.4°C while “here” has risen 0.1°C
    Therefore temperature “there” has risen four time faster than “here”!
    Horsefeathers !
    The reality of thermodynamics in Kelvin is that “there” is only 0.14% hotter than “here”.
    Such is the scientific nonsense touted by the MSM and swallowed by a scientifically ignorant and therefore gullible public.
    If you can’t figure out why “there” is only 0.14% more and not four times hotter than “here” – welcome to the ignorant chattering masses – take a science course.
    Your average journalist is a scientific ignoramus and anything is possible.

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