Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Siberia's prolonged unusually warm weather is
an 'alarming sign': scientist
Most of the world’s coldest inhabited places are
found in Siberia. The Siberian winter gets colder from west to east, where its
climate is often affected by currents of Atlantic origin. The coldest city is
Ojmjakon, where the average temperature in January goes down to -46 °C, colder
than the North Pole. But in summer, its average temperature reaches 13 °C, quite
a gap, isn’t it?
In May this year, surface temperatures in
Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius higher than average, the hottest May for the last
four decades. In fact, surface air temperatures throughout winter and spring
were higher than average. Meteorologists warn that this drastic temperature
rise is a clear sign of accelerating global warming.
For example, the permafrost, ground that
continuously remains frozen for more than a year, is melting in many places in Siberian.
In June, a substantial amount of fuel spilled into a river from a power station
in the Siberian city of Norilsk. The energy company claims that the foundation
of the storage tank seemed to have sunk due to melting permafrost.
And of course, such climate and geological
changes affect the environment and ecosystem significantly.
Read the article and learn about a clear and present
impact of global warming.
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