The paper, published in the peer-reviewed PLOS ONE, found that the Northeast United States is warming about 50 per cent faster than the global average. Global average temperatures are expected to rise two degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2060. But in the parts of the United States abutting Central Canada the threshold could be reached as early as 2040. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, notably, was struck in an attempt to arrest global warming toa level “well below” two degrees Celsius. Much of the rising aggregate temperatures around the Northeast United States will be due to winter warming.

Source: National Post January 19, 2017 19:27 UTC