Arctic hit by record high temperatures

摘要

WHILE western Europe copes with freezing temperatures and snow, the Arctic is experiencing record highs. Temperatures are 35°C warmer than normal for the time of year at Greenland's most northerly point. Cape Morris Jesup, says Robert Rohde of Berkeley Earth in California, and the site has already spent more time above 0°C so far this year than in any complete year on record. There is no weather station at the North Pole, but scientists suspect it, too, has risen above freezing this week.