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Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted? – The Conversation UK
The high temperatures and wildfires of 2019 were thought to have heralded a freak summer for the Arctic. Then 2020 brought worse.
It was a grim record. On June 20 2020, the mercury reached 38°C in Verkhoyansk, Siberia the hottest its ever been in the Arctic in recorded history. With the heatwaves came fire, and by the start of August around 600 individual fires were being detected every day. By early September, parts of the Siberian Arctic had been burning since the second week of June.
CO emissions from these fires increased by more than a third compared to 2019, according to scientists at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monit…
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