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SCOTLAND'S greenhouse gas emissions rose by more than 5 per cent in a year, new figures show.
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When July temperatures in Iceland nearly reached 1939's high, were the residents bummed out and plagued by kidney stones and dengue fever?

“It may be the last summer where I can enjoy such blissfulness so I couldn’t be happier,” Lára Gunnarsdóttir, 92, told Fréttabladid while basking in the sun at Thingvellir yesterday.

Thingvellir enjoyed the warmest weather in Iceland yesterday, although heat records were broken in other parts of the country as well.
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Iceland’s all-time heat record was set on June 22, 1939 in Berufjördur in the East Fjords where the temperature went up to 30.5°C.
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Local residents used the opportunity to tan at swimming pools around the city and at the thermal beach in Nauthólsvík where a traffic jam was created because of all the eager sunbathers.

Another perspective on last July's warm weather in Iceland:

I expect that every single person in Iceland who had the slightest possibility to skip out from work yesterday did so. You see, up here businesses close due to weather during the summers rather than in the winter [seriously] - warm and sunny days have traditionally been such a rarity here that every single one is precious.