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Tango0128 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."…"
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Personal logo StoneMtnMinis Supporting Member of TMP29 Jul 2020 10:06 a.m. PST

If anywhere needs a heat wave it is Siberia!

Tango0129 Jul 2020 3:59 p.m. PST

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John the OFM11 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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