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Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

By Michael Marshall

27 February 2018

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WHILE western Europe copes with freezing temperatures and , the Arctic is experiencing record highs.

At Greenland’s most northerly point, Cape Morris Jesup, of Berkeley Earth in California says – and that the site has already spent this year than in any year on record. There is no weather station at the North Pole, but scientists suspect it, too, .

“,” Rohde tweeted Monday.

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