{"id":4726,"date":"2023-01-12T03:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2023-01-12T03:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:54:56","slug":"russias-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-planet-and-seeing-disease-drought-and-forest-fires-as-a-result-part-11-in-the-rest-of-the-world-is-warming-up-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4726","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s warming faster than the rest of the planet\u2014and seeing disease, drought, and forest fires as a result. Part 11 In The Rest Of The World Is Warming Up Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The World."},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/qz.com\/256020\/russias-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-planet-and-seeing-disease-drought-and-forest-fires-as-a-result\/<\/a><\/p>\n

When Vladimir Putin declined to support\u00a0the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to limit carbon emissions, he famously quipped that higher temperatures might actually benefit Russia since its people would have to spend less on fur coats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s getting his wish. Changes in wind and ocean currents caused by global warming shift heat around unevenly, causing some areas to heat up dramatically even as other regions cool. Russia, it turns out, is in the unusually hot category. Between 1976 and 2012, average Russian temperatures rose 0.43\u00b0C (0.8\u00b0F) a decade\u2014more than twice the global average of 0.17\u00b0C\u2014according to a new report out by Russia\u2019s climate and environment agency<\/a> (pdf, link in Russian).<\/p>\n

This is a big problem for a variety of reasons, say Russia\u2019s climate scientists. Hotter temperatures appear to be driving a spike in episodes of dangerous extreme weather:<\/p>\n

The frequency of forest fires<\/a>\u00a0(Russian)\u00a0in the Siberian taiga, Evenki, and Khabarovsk regions\u00a0and in the far northeast have surged between 30% and 50% in the past two to three decades.<\/p>\n

Those extreme-weather episodes are taking their toll on Russians\u2019 health. The report notes that the forest fires that often accompany summer heat waves give off noxious fumes. In 2010, this smog caused Moscow mortality rates to double<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Balmier climes are also making Russia more hospitable for certain diseases. The report notes that by 2010, the breeding ground for harmful insects was twice what it was in 1973. This trend, says the report, is linked with a flare-up of West Nile virus in the last 15 years, as well as an expanded range of Crimean hemorrhagic fever and tick-borne encephalitis.<\/p>\n

One of the arguments that Putin and others have advanced in favor of global warming is that it will make more of Russia\u2019s land arable. The report notes that is happening, as agriculture shifts to central and northern parts of the country. However, it\u2019s something of a wash given that drought is also hurting output in Russia\u2019s\u00a0breadbasket region. Others note that the melting of permafrost could galvanize Russia\u2019s mining and oil industries<\/a> by making nickel, copper, diamonds, oil and natural gas more accessible.<\/p>\n

Climate change worse everywhere than everywhere else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/qz.com\/256020\/russias-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-planet-and-seeing-disease-drought-and-forest-fires-as-a-result\/ When Vladimir Putin declined to support\u00a0the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to limit carbon emissions, he famously quipped that higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127,27,836,61,894,446,897,833,542,896,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}