Honesty Requires the Term "Regional Warming"

The penguin scientists didn’t get the memo. The globe hasn’t warmed since 1995, so those cute penguin chicks can’t be dying now from “global climate change.” However, though Antarctica as a whole hasn’t warmed, the Antarctic Peninsula (where the penguin chicks are) has warmed. The world hasn’t, but certain regions have, primarily the US and the Arctic.

Many studies and articles are written blaming fill-in-the-blank change on global warming. But here’s a question I often scream when I watch news on climate change: if that region hasn’t even warmed in the last decade, how can that specific catastrophe even be due to global warming? 

Journalistic integrity could be maintained if reporters would do a simple check to see if the region in question has actually warmed. They can put their desired time period, say June 2007 to June 2008, into this NASA form using their desired base period, perhaps 1995 to 2000. This will show them a map of the world with the regions that have lately warmed and those that have cooled.