How has global mean temperature changed since the mid-1800s?

What will be an ideal response?


See Figure 18-17b. "While overall global temperature has increased a moderate 1.1°F, temperatures in Alaska, Siberia, and northwestern Canada have risen 5°F in summer and 10°F in winter. Spring comes two weeks earlier in the Arctic than it did at the turn of the 21st century."

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