Unusually warm weather in Russia may be result of global warming - Greenpeace
MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - The unusually warm weather that has been occurring in central Russia may be the outcome of global climate change, Ivan Blokov, program director for Greenpeace's Russian office told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The probability of it being the outcome of global climate change is very high," he said.
"And this is alarming. Among the manifestations of the global climate change is the so-called thermal waves - waves of extremely cold weather or, which is unfortunately more common, waves of abnormally warm weather. If such waves continue, urgent measures will have to be taken," Blokov said.
"If the global temperature rises by 6 - 6.5 degrees, there will not be a place for humans on Earth. The temperature has risen by one degree now, roughly speaking," the expert said.
The eighth temperature record has been registered in Moscow since the beginning of the spring. The temperature, registered by experts of the weather station located at the national exhibition center VVTs in northern Moscow, was 16 degrees above zero, Celsius, up 1.7 degrees compared to the record, set on March 25, 2008.
The Hydrometeobureau weather monitoring service for Moscow and the Moscow region said the unusually warm weather will leave the city and its environs in a few days, and night temperatures slightly below zero will return.
