‘Global warming helped heatwave’

THE heatwave which has hit Siberia over the past six months would have been “effectively impossible” without climate change caused by humans, scientists have found.

The region has been experiencing unusually hot conditions since the beginning of 2020, while June saw a new record high Arctic temperature of 38°C at Verkhoyansk, Russia.

An analysis found the prolonged heat over the region was made at least 600 times more likely because of global warming.