Can every location actually heat up twice as fast as every other location?

Al Gore's Journal : Growing Hotter in the West

According to a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization the western United States is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world.
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“We are seeing signs of the economic impacts throughout the West,” according to the author, Stephen Saunders. “Since 2000 we have seen $2.7 billion in crop loss claims due to drought. Global warming is harming valuable commercial salmon fisheries, reducing hunting activity and revenues, and threatening shorter and less profitable seasons for ski resorts.”

2007-2008 ski season update

Snow conditions were superb in nearly every part of the country last season, with the Rocky Mountains enjoying near-record snowfall after November. As a result, the ski industry had a record season for lift ticket sales. A final audit by Kottke showed that the ski industry topped 60 million skier and rider visits for the first time last winter. That was an increase of nearly 3 percent over the previous record in 2005-06.