How a Norwegian island is already living our climate change future
As the world awaits the next key IPCC climate report, the rapidly warming Arctic island of Svalbard provides a glimpse into the future for other parts of Earth that are changing more slowly
By Adam Vaughan
A summertime presumption implicit the municipality of Longyearbyen successful Svalbard Arterra Picture Library / Alamy
One twelvemonth on, the radical of Svalbard are inactive talking astir July 2020. The biggest municipality of this Norwegian archipelago successful the Arctic, Longyearbyen, is surrounded by snowy hills and is sub-zero for overmuch of the year. But past July, temperatures spiked to much than 20°C for respective days connected end successful a period that seldom sees a time supra 10°C. This July, by contrast, has been somewhat cooler than normal.
“There is simply a wide feeling that things are …
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