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No, it’s that “Temperatures exceeded 38C in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic circle.“ (http
by IAmEveryone 6y ago
No, it’s that “Temperatures exceeded 38C in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic circle.“ (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53415297 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53415297)
Logging just doesn’t make any sense. Satellite imaging is pretty much constant now, so it wouldn’t be possible to burn the areas you logged before someone snapped a photo.
Siberia also has something like two-and-half roads, even less going to China. You can stop illegal logging, or at least observe it in its entirety, by asking some bored senior to count trucks passing by outside.
- wahern 6y agoLast year, at least, there seemed to have been alot of buzz about illegal logging: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/05/russians-blame-siberian-wildfires-on-illegal-logging-authorities-inaction-poll-a67157 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/05/russians-blame-sib... https://www.dw.com/en/russias-forests-threatened-by-illegal-logging/a-48060208 https://www.dw.com/en/russias-forests-threatened-by-illegal-... And before: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151110-timber-russian-far-east-illegal-logging-siberia/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151110-timbe...