India, April 10 -- Reserach papers note that the Urals are indeed warming; as is Kazakhstan, a former Soviet Republic and among the largest countries globally by area

Is the deluge on the continental borders of Asia and Europe in the Ural mountains a result of climate change? That question is uppermost in the minds of many as television stations beam images of catastrophe and almost biblical flooding from Russia and Kazakhstan.

Certainly, the data shows that the Ural mountains - stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Ural river, which then flows into the Caspian Sea - are warming. Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and one of the largest countries in the world by area, is warming too.

A study by scien...