Effects of global warming - North Pole recorded 20 degrees Celsius above mid-winter norm

Effects of global warming is being felt because North Pole has recorded 20 degrees Celsius above mid-winter norm in Canada. The Canadian weather authorities have laid the blame squarely on temperature spike that has led to the freak depression which has, in turn, brought record Christmas temperatures to North America and lashed Britain with winds and floods.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 31 December 2015.

The deep low pressure area is looming over Iceland and churning up hurricane force with 75-knot winds and 30-foot waves in the north Atlantic, simultaneously, dragging warm air northwards. This, in the opinion of experts, is a very violent and extremely powerful depression due to which hot temperatures have been pushed so far north. This deep depression has, in fact, pushed hot air as far as the North Pole. As a result, temperatures are at least 20 degrees above normal, at around freezing point, between zero and two degrees.
US scientists from the North Pole Environmental Observatory have observed that the temperatures had climbed suddenly. The polar region is the area that has seen the most profound effects of climate change in recent decades and the current scenario could be that after the North Atlantic, the depression would head towards Siberia which could experience a heatwave of sorts.

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#yakunin #putin #russianrailways #chunnel #nome It is a plan mooted by one of most powerful tycoons of Russia and who happens to be a close friend of President Vladimir Putin. The plan is to build a 13,000-mile highway that connect Great Britain to Alaska, via Mother Russia.
The major roadblock for this plan which would be an inter-state, inter-civilization, project is money, not feasibility. This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 26 March 2015.

The plan has been outlined by Russian Railways boss Vladimir Yakunin. He has presented the plan to Russian Academy of Science. It was the plan for the Trans-Eurasian belt Development and its cost would run into “trillions” of dollars.
Broadly speaking, this superhighway would connect thousands of miles of existing byways and bridges all across Russia. It would be a span of over 6,000 miles. From the west, it could then connect to roads in Europe, including the Chunnel Tunnel, which in turn, connects Great Britain and France.
The eastern end of the highway would be in Siberia’s Chukotka region which is just 55 miles across the Bering Sea from the isolated Alaskan city of Nome. In case a connection to Nome was followed by a U.S.-built road to Fairbanks, the global journey could become a reality.
The project, once completed, would cover the entire length of Russia and, by linking existing networks in Europe and Asia, would lead to the first-ever modern route from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. In the opinion of Yakunin, it could generate innumerable new jobs, allow new cities to be created and, simultaneously, spur the development of Siberia and the Far East.

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