A new record high temperature of +28.8 °C was recorded in the area of the Slettnes lighthouse, russian.rt.com reports with reference to Norwegian meteorologists.
The current figure exceeds the record set in 1964, when the temperature reached +27.6 °C.
Roman Vilfand, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, said earlier that the cause of global warming is the accumulation of greenhouse gases that act like a film in a greenhouse: they pass short-wave solar radiation, but the solar energy reflected from the Earth's surface no longer passes back and accumulates in the surface layer of air.
"The rate of climate change is such that the average global temperature around the globe is rising at a rate of +0.17 °C in ten years," the expert said.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
