"Climate change made Siberia’s heat wave at least 600" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Jul 2020 8:50 p.m. PST |
… times more likely. "The intense heat wave that gripped Siberia during the first half of 2020 would have been impossible without human-caused climate change, a new study finds. Researchers with the World Weather Attribution Network report that climate change made the prolonged heat in the region at least 600 times more likely — and possibly as much as 99,000 times more likely. "We wouldn't expect the natural world to generate [such a heat wave] in anything less than 800,000 years or so," climate scientist Andrew Ciavarella of the U.K. Met Office in Exeter, England, said July 14 in a news conference. It's "effectively impossible without human influence."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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StoneMtnMinis | 29 Jul 2020 10:06 a.m. PST |
If anywhere needs a heat wave it is Siberia! |
Tango01 | 29 Jul 2020 3:59 p.m. PST |
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John the OFM | 11 Aug 2020 11:55 a.m. PST |
For the sake of the rest of the world, the last place it needs a heatwave is Siberia. All the decayed matter in the permafrost will release more carbon dioxide and methane. |
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