Alaskan North Slope climate change just outran one of our tools to measure it
That last chart is really interesting, and maybe quite alarming. Most of the conversations around global warming focus on limiting the global temperature increase to a few degrees c over the next few decades. However it looks like the average temperature at this station has already increased from 6°-12° F to what looks like 14°-20° F.<p>This is already an increase of 2° C!  So while the global average may only have changed slightly, temperatures in specific regions have already gone slightly off the rails.