World Warmer but Greenland Colder
Greenland is much cooler now than it was 40 years ago. Edward Hanna, of the Institute of Marine Studies in the U.K. says, “It really depends on what time scale you are looking at?Over the last 40 or 50 years?there has been a statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland.” This can be confusing if you assume that global warming will produce warmer temperatures worldwide. This isn’t true?it will produce more extreme weather and some areas, such as the U.K. and Europe, will actually become colder due to changes in ocean currents.
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