{"id":2904,"date":"2025-04-16T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:07:17","slug":"the-arctic-is-the-worlds-region-that-has-warmed-the-most-followed-by-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/the-arctic-is-the-worlds-region-that-has-warmed-the-most-followed-by-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic is the world\u2019s region that has warmed the most, followed by Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air above the surface was about 1\u00b0C higher than in the 1940s. But some regions are warming much faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Credits: Our World in Data\" class=\"wp-image-2905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/every-world-region-and-ocean-has-warmed-the-arctic-ocean-and-europe-much-more-than-others.png 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credits: Our World in Data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The chart shows how average surface air temperatures have changed each decade across continents and oceans compared to historical averages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Arctic warmed more than any other region \u2014 by the 2010s, it was 2.8\u00b0C hotter than in the 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Arctic, melting sea ice <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/927\/arctic-amplification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has amplified this temperature increase<\/a>: ice reflects sunlight, so having less of it leads to more warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe was in second. Since land heats up faster than water, its mostly land-based geography has increased its rate of warming. It has also seen a rapid reduction in aerosols from air pollution. These <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/so-emissions-by-world-region-in-million-tonnes\">improvements in air quality<\/a> can inadvertently increase temperatures because there are fewer aerosols to reflect sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/decadal-temperature-anomaly\">You can explore how temperatures in each continent, ocean, and country have changed over time<\/a>&nbsp;\u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air above the surface was about 1\u00b0C higher than in the 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}