Because of the earth's orbit and tilt the Arctic in summer is the nearest area to the sun so it is hardly surprising that high temperatures can be achieved.

As a good rule, actual science requires ignoring EVERYTHING government & corporate media says. Science,..or propaganda is a choice and any sentient individual must decide which. There is no joining fact & fiction without discrediting science.

Garbage in; garbage out. Just as the legacy media seems to be naive or willfully ignorant of recorded history, including their own reporting, and those records are available to anyone, it seems that their policy is to bet on people's laziness, or psychological malleability to fearmongering, salacious, or scandalous material. Being boring, thorough and rigorous, rarely excites the masses. But eventually, the boy who cried wolf' is discredited.

Three things in life you can count on: Death, Taxes, and climate scientists being wrong.