BBC Warming Arctic Claims Are Fake News

By Paul Homewood

h/t Paul Kolk

The BBC are at it again!

Their latest report about Norway, “Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic”, claims:

Climate scientists say the Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else. This impacts ecosystems, wildlife and local populations

In reality temperatures in the Arctic have been stable for the last two decade. The Arctic is not “warming” at all.

Looking further back, temperatures were at similar levels to now in the 1930s and 40s. In between that era and now, there was a plunge in temperatures, followed by a recovery:

We see the same cyclical pattern in northern Norway too:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/STATIONS_v4/tmp_NO000001026_15_0_1/station.png