The situation with fires and floods in the world is largely related to climate change on Earth. This was announced on Thursday, August 5, by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the government. Tomorrow, the head of state plans to hold a separate meeting on these issues.
The President noted that over the past 44 years, the average annual air temperature in Russia has been growing 2.8 times faster “than in the global dimension.”
“We have a significant part of the territory – about 65 percent – located in the far north, and many of these territories, settlements were built, built and settled on the so-called permafrost back in the Soviet era,” Vladimir Putin noted.
The Ministry of Nature of Russia, in turn, reported that the processes in the country within the framework of global warming are proceeding 2.8 times faster than in other countries of the world.
Earlier kp.ru reported that scientists of the Cloud to Street company provided the results of observations, according to which, since the beginning of the 21st century, the number of people affected by floods has increased by 24 percent. In the current 2021, the number of floods around the world has increased. The floods affected the inhabitants of Europe, Russia and China.
