Media cite Climate Reanalyzer, Birkel in stories on temperature spike at North Pole
The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, Live Science, Pulse Headlines and News and International Business Times cited data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website run by research assistant professor Sean Birkel at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in recent stories on the 36 Fahrenheit degree jump in pre-winter temperatures at the North Pole. The entire Arctic region, meantime, is 13 degrees warmer than in past years. Researchers say a number of factors are contributing to these temperature jumps. But “the broader background,” Birkel told Live Science, “is that the climate is warming, [and] the Arctic is warming very much so, more so than any other part of the globe.”