Paul Goble
Staunton, May 15 – Natural disasters like flooding are happening in the North Caucasus not because, as some believe, someone has launched a climate war against the region but because human beings have acted in ways that have boosted air temperatures, according to Magomet Abshayev.
The specialist on weather at the Kabardino-Balkar scientific center says that it is true that global warning has hit the North Caucasus harder than many other reasons but that has to do with global trends and not military targeting (etokavkaz.ru/ekologiya/anomalii-i-kontrol-chto-proiskhodit-s-klimatom-na-severnom-kavkaze).
And if people everywhere don’t change the way they live and avoid a further warming of the climate, he says, rivers coming from the mountains into the lowlands there where most people live will completely silt up over the next ten to fifteen years, leaving residents without the water they need to survive.
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