Pace of area’s temperature rise, outpaced in US only by Alaskan Arctic, apparently increased in past five years

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31059079

They found that New England has heated up by 2.5C (4.5F) on average from 1900 to 2024. This is far in excess of the global average, with the world warming by around 1.3C in this time due to the release of heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels. “That is very fast, which is worrying,” said Young.

Some of that is debatable, but whatever.