The VICE Channels      Parts of Europe Warmed Four Times More
Than Global Average in the Past 50 Years      Written by
Mat McDermott      While it's useful to talk about the last
century and half of climate change in global terms, doing so
masks regional trends that sometimes differ greatly from the
global average.       That the Arctic has warmed much more than
the average is pretty well known. It turns out that parts of
Europe have experienced far greater warming in the past 50
years as well. New analysis, published in Environmental Research
Letters, shows that parts of the continent have seen four times
the warming as has the planet as a whole, and that there are
important regional variations to be considered.      Scientists
from the University of Warwick have found that, temporally
speaking, temperature changes can vary drastically from region
to region. For example, in the region from southern England,
across northern France, and into Denmark, the hottest 5 percent
of days each summer have warmed m