"Denmark's national climate body has admitted it wrongly reported record warm temperatures on the centre of the Greenland ice sheet last week, in what it called "good news from a climate perspective".
The Danish Meteorological Institute, which has a key role in monitoring Greenland's climate, last week reported a shocking August temperature of between 2.7C and 4.7C at the Summit weather station, which is located 3,202m above sea level at the the centre of the Greenland ice sheet, generating a spate of global headlines.But on Wednesday it posted a tweet saying that a closer look had shown that monitoring equipment had been giving erroneous results.
"Was there record-level warmth on the inland ice on Friday?" it said.
"No! A quality check has confirmed out suspicion that the measurement was too high."...
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