A heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-degree Celsius highs was 'almost impossible' without the influence of man-made climate change, leading scientists said.
Temperatures in Siberia -- home to much of the world's carbon-rich permafrost -- were more than 5C hotter than average between January and June. A heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-degree Celsius highs was "almost impossible" without the influence of man-made climate change, leading scientists said.
Earth's poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet, and temperatures in Siberia -- home to much of the world's carbon-rich permafrost -- were more than 5C hotter than average between January and June.Andrew Ciavarella, senior detection and attribution scientist at Britain's Met Office, described the findings released Wednesday as "staggering".
As part of a growing area of climate research known as attribution science, the team ran computer simulations of temperatures with the climate as it is today -- around 1C hotter than the pre-Industrial era baseline. This makes the heatwave "almost impossible in a climate that had not been warmed by greenhouse gas emissions", the team said, adding that carbon pollution had made the extreme event at least 600 times more likely to occur.The team behind the calculations stressed that the Siberian heatwave was a problem for the entire globe.
Russia's aerial forest protection service, the agency that specialises in forest fires, said Wednesday that more than 5,000 people are working on 197 fires across Russia in an area of over 40,000 hectares, including eight in nature reserves. While the research was compiled rapidly and has not yet been subjected to peer-review, authors said it produced "among the strongest results of any attribution study conducted to date."The 2015 Paris climate deal commits nations to capping temperature rises to "well-below" 2C above pre-industrial levels and to strive for a 1.5C limit if at all possible.
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