The capital of GreenlandNuuk, recorded its warmest January in history this year, breaking a record dating back more than a century. This was reported this Monday by the Danish Meteorological Institute.
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As Europe and North America suffered a cold snap in January, Nuuk recorded an average monthly temperature of no less than 7.8 °C above average for the month of January of the last three decades.
This record is 1.4 degrees above Nuuk’s previous record, which dates back to 1917, 109 years ago. On the warmest day of January in Nuuk, Thermometers rose to 11.3 °C.
From the southern tip of Greenland to the west coast, over a distance of more than 2,000 kilometersthe temperature in January reached records, indicated the meteorological institute.
Impact of global warming
In Ilulissat, Disko Bay, the January average stood at -1.6°C, 1.3 degrees higher than the previous record from 1929 and 11 degrees warmer than normal for January.
Occasionally, warmer air sweeps over Greenland and brings milder temperatures for a day or twobut such a long heat record over such a large area is “a clear indication that something is changing,” said climate researcher Martin Olesen.
The melting of the Arctic has turned Greenland into a key island. China has increased its presence through the acquisition of shares in mining companies.
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“We know and can clearly see that global warming is in full swing. Which, unsurprisingly, leads to more records at the warm end of temperature escalation and gradually to fewer records in the cold end,” he noted.
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The Arctic region is in line with global warming: it has warmed four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979, according to a 2022 study published in the scientific journal Nature.
(With information from AFP)
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