viernes, 17 de julio de 2020

Climate change: Siberian heatwave 'clear evidence' of warming - BBC News

Climate change: Siberian heatwave 'clear evidence' of warming - BBC News

A forest fire in central Yakutia, Sakha Republic in June 2020

Arctic heat wave is ‘unequivocal’ evidence of climate change

The devastating heat wave between January and June 2020 in the Arctic was made at least 600 times more likely as a result of human-induced climate change. An international team of climate scientists, led by the UK Met Office, analysed the prolonged high average temperatures over 6 months and the record-breaking high of 38 ℃ recorded in Verkhoyansk on 20 June. “We found in both cases that this event would have effectively been impossible without human-induced climate change,” say researchers.
BBC | 5 min readReference: World Weather Attribution report

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