Warming in Taiwan twice the global average: weather bureau - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

According to CWB, Taiwan has experienced a warming effect that is twice the global average, which has translated to higher temperatures, greater rainfall, and more typhoons over the past 30 years.
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Weather Forecast Center Director Cheng Ming-dean explained that Taiwan experienced a larger rise in temperature because it is adjacent to the huge Eurasian landmass. The continent's landmass tends to absorb and store more heat than other areas of the globe.

The Associated Press: Climate researchers: Russian heat wave was natural

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming isn't directly to blame for last summer's deadly — and extraordinary — heat wave in Russia, researchers said in a report Wednesday that came with a climate warning.

"We may be on the cusp of a period in which the probability of such events increases rapidly, due primarily to the influence of projected increases in greenhouse gas concentrations," said the team led by Randall Dole and Martin Hoerling of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The intense heat wave in Russia "was mainly due to natural internal atmospheric variability," the scientists reported in a paper to be published in Geophysical Research Letters.
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Hoerling said researchers were surprised to find that the region hadn't experienced the rising temperatures that have impacted much of the planet.

"While the globe as a whole, on an annual basis, is warming, there can be important regional differences," Hoerling said. The 1930s remain the warmest decade on record for western Russia, unlike the planet as a whole, for which the past 10 years have been the warmest on record, he said.