Climate alarm bells are ringing again this year with the news of the soaring temperatures in Siberia.
Freak temperatures there have been linked to wildfires, a huge oil spill and a plague of tree-eating moths.
The prolonged hot spell in the northerly region of Russia is likely to push this year's global temperature average to its highest ever, making 2020 the hottest on record.
Reports of woolly mammoths being revealed as the permafrost melts are eye-catching and alarming at the same time.
Who would have thought we’d be talking about Siberian summers as opposed to Siberian winters!