Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ...
by Someone on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:41PM
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”where you wouldn't really want to live anyway”
When reading the article, I wondered whether global warming might change that. It won’t (fully) flood (highest mountains are over 1 km high), and has ”has an Arctic climate, although with significantly higher temperatures than other places at the same latitude.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitsbergen)
It probably will stay on the ‘too cold for most’ side, though, and the long winter night won’t go away.
When reading the article, I wondered whether global warming might change that. It won’t (fully) flood (highest mountains are over 1 km high), and has ”has an Arctic climate, although with significantly higher temperatures than other places at the same latitude.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitsbergen)
It probably will stay on the ‘too cold for most’ side, though, and the long winter night won’t go away.