It's time for climate change news again - this time from Siberia, courtesy of The Guardian.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service of the EU has announced record-breaking temperatures in Siberia this month, with several towns within the Arctic Circle exceeding their previous records by over 10 degrees Celsius.
Nizhnyaya Pesha hit 30 degrees on June 9th, and Khatanga hit 25 degrees - its usual daytime temperature around this time of year being zero.
Martin Stendel, of the Danish Meteorological Institute, said the abnormal May temperatures seen in north-west Siberia would be likely to happen just once in a hundred thousand years without human-caused global heating.
Although Siberians may be enjoying the warm weather, they have already been made painfully aware of the associated dangers. The massive spill of diesel fuel from a storage tank in Siberia earlier this month was caused by the permafrost on which the facility was built partially thawing. The catastrophe occurred when the supports sank into the ground, and Russian authorities fear the ramifications if other areas, also constructed on permafrost, are similarly affected.
Meanwhile, officials from the UN, WHO, and WWF International are also blaming climate change and man's destruction of his natural environmnent for the coronavirus pandemic, but that's not really news.