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The Russians had a little taste of the effects of global warming at the end of this particularly mild year. While snow has barely started to fall a few hours ago in Moscow, the weather services have published their balance sheet: 2019 was the hottest year recorded in the country since the weather reports exist.
Mushrooms in the middle of winter in the Saint Petersburg region, dandelions or pansies that are starting to bloom in the Moscow region, these anomalies multiplied in this month of December and were reported in the local press or on the networks social. The cause: a particularly mild winter.
In general, this year in Russia has been the hottest since weather reports have been available. According to the director of the Hydrometeorological Center, the average annual temperature recorded in Moscow in 2019 broke the previous heat record by an additional 0.3 ° C.
In the capital, December was practically ten degrees above average temperatures. A phenomenon that is explained, according to meteorologists, both by passenger cyclones from the Atlantic and climate change.
Putin judges this process "very serious"
This warming had repercussions this summer in Siberia, struck by forest fires of exceptional magnitude.
This process was described as “ very serious ” by Vladimir Poutine who refuses to make the link between human activity and global warming, but who nevertheless reaffirmed the commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In a country where a fifth of the land is in the Arctic Circle and where entire cities have been built on the permafrost, the consequences in the event of massive melting could be catastrophic.