Published 14:00 IST, July 26th 2020
Norway's Arctic archipelago Svalbard records its highest temperature in over 40 years
According to reports by the meteorological institute, Norway's Arctic archipelago Svalbard recorded its highest temperature for over 40 years.
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According to reports by meteorological institute, rway's Arctic archipelago Svalbard recorded its highest temperature for over 40 years. Svalbard is kwn for its bear population. t only this but it also conprises of a coal mine and a doomsay seed vault. Both of se contribute to global warming happening in area. seed vault is said to have combined stocks of world's agricultural bonus in order to help during a global catastrophe.
Global warming creating its impact
It was for second day straight that archipelago registered 21.2 degrees Celsius of heat in afteron. Meteorologist Kristen Gislefoss said that last time archipelago recorded this temperature was in year 1979. island group is only isle in rrn rway which has people living re. It is around 1,000 kilometres away from th pole.
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A study suggests that global warming in Arctic is happening twice as fast as it is happening on or parts of globe. heatwave is expected to last till July 27. Svalbard islands rmally expect temperatures of 5-8 degrees Celsius at this time of year. However, region has seen a hike of 5 degrees in temperature since end of January. peak was 38 degrees in Siberia. This happened in mid-july.
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According to a recent report " Svalbard climate in 2100”, greenhouse gas emissions will change aver temperature in archipelago. Between 2070 and 2100 temperature will rise by 7-10 degrees. report suggests that from 1971 to 2017 a rise of 3-5 degrees will be seen in temperature, with highest spike in winters. This is w coming out to be true.
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14:00 IST, July 26th 2020