{"id":3831,"date":"2022-01-19T02:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2022-01-20T03:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:33:25","slug":"swedens-temperature-is-rising-more-than-twice-as-fast-as-the-global-average-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Sweden\u2019s temperature is rising more than TWICE as fast as the global average. Part 15 In The Rest Of The World Is Warming Up Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20190401\/swedens-temperature-rising-more-than-twice-as-fast-as-the-global-average\">https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20190401\/swedens-temperature-rising-more-than-twice-as-fast-as-the-global-average<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-description\">\n<div id=\"premium-top\">The average temperature in Sweden is rising more than twice as fast as the global average temperature, according to a new report by the country\u2019s national weather agency SMHI.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mpu-1 ad-container\">\n<div id=\"se_mpu_1\" class=\"ad_container dfp_ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<div id=\"premium-container\">\n<p>Between 1991 and 2018, Sweden\u2019s annual average temperature rose by 1.7C compared to average temperatures in pre-industrial times, which SMHI calculated using data from the years 1861-1890. In the same period the global average temperature only rose by 0.73C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in line with what we can expect based on existing climate scenarios and calculations of how global warming might affect us, something that is already happening today,\u201d Erik Kjellstr\u00f6m, professor of climatology for SMHI, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smhi.se\/nyhetsarkiv\/temperaturen-i-sverige-stiger-mer-an-for-jorden-som-helhet-1.146120?l=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement presenting the findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe temperature is rising faster in the Arctic, especially during the winter, and this can also be seen here in Sweden. In northern Sweden, the largest increase can be seen in winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has been tracking annual average temperatures since 1860, and last year was the country\u2019s eighth hottest year since then. In the past three decades, only two years \u2013 1996 and 2010 \u2013 have been colder than the average annual temperature in the period 1961-1990.<\/p>\n<p>But as last summer\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20181206\/mortality-increased-by-700-during-swedens-summer-heatwave\">heatwave<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20180717\/there-hasnt-been-a-proper-rainfall-in-weeks-swedish-farmers-struggle-with-drought-crisis\">drought<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20180809\/wildfires-put-climate-on-the-agenda-in-swedish-election\">wildfires<\/a>&nbsp;showed, the effects of a warmer Sweden will not only be felt during the winter. A governmental climate study from 2017 warned that summer temperatures in northern Sweden could increase by as much as 7C by 2080.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden, frequently hailed as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/germanwatch.org\/sites\/germanwatch.org\/files\/CCPI2019_Results_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world\u2019s environmental front runners<\/a>, has ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls for keeping the increase in global temperatures below 2C, and has also adopted a long-term target to reach net zero emissions by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change worse everywhere than everywhere else<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20190401\/swedens-temperature-rising-more-than-twice-as-fast-as-the-global-average The average temperature in Sweden is rising more than twice as fast as the global average temperature, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127,27,832,61,914,488,126,831,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}