“What we’ve seen in Greenland is eye-opening,” Mr. Arndt, one of the report’s authors, said in an interview. Temperatures in Greenland and other Arctic regions, which he said could be an early indicator of significant climate change, increased at a much higher rate than in the rest of the world.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/
A minor problem is that Greenland was warmer 70 years ago, and that this spring was the 10th coldest on record.
March April May Spring
1993 -14.3 -6.6 -2.2 -7.70
1989 -13.9 -4.3 -1.2 -6.47
1907 -13.9 -5.6 1.2 -6.10
1983 -13.2 -4.4 -0.7 -6.10
1904 -10.0 -8.4 0.3 -6.03
1918 -9.2 -8 -0.2 -5.80
1990 -9.2 -7.1 -1.1 -5.80
1992 -7.9 -6.2 -3.3 -5.80
1903 -12.4 -4 -0.8 -5.73
2011 -8.5 -8.5 -0.2 -5.73
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/
