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FILE PHOTO: A specialist of Russian Federal Agency for Forestry works to put out a forest fire outside the village of Basly in Omsk Region, Russia August 11, 2020. REUTERSpix: The UN on Tuesday officially recognised the 38 degrees Celsius measured in Siberia last year as a new record high for the Arctic, sounding “alarm bells” over climate change.
“This new Arctic record is one of a series of observations reported to the WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes that sound the alarm bells about our changing climate,“ its chief Petteri Taalas said in a statement. The average temperatures across Arctic Siberia reached up to 10C above normal for much of the summer last year, it said, adding that this had fuelled fires and massive sea-ice loss.
“This investigation highlights the increasing temperatures occurring for a climatically important region of the world,“ said agency weather expert Randall Cerveny.
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