How a Norwegian island is already living our local climate alternate future
By Adam Vaughan
A summer learn over the metropolis of Longyearbyen in Svalbard Arterra Portray Library / Alamy
One yr on, the participants of Svalbard are aloof talking about July 2020. The ultimate metropolis of this Norwegian archipelago within the Arctic, Longyearbyen, is surrounded by snowy hills and is sub-zero for a good deal of the yr. But last July, temperatures spiked to extra than 20°C for several days on live in a month that rarely sees a day above 10°C. This July, by contrast, has been somewhat cooler than typical.
“There would possibly be a frequent feeling that things are …