Arctic: Temperature
(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will commission research on the reasons for the unseasonably high temperatures being recorded in the Arctic.
This question was answered on 2nd December 2016
HMG funds a number of organisations, including NERC funded centres and the Met Office Hadley Centre, which are world-leaders in climate research and are active in Arctic research; this includes the monitoring of Arctic temperatures and understanding the reasons for observed changes in temperature.