Claim: A naturally occurring gas explosion, climate change induced. We could not find any clear evidence such a naturally occurring gas explosion, in Siberian tundra, with warming permafrost.
Claim: Unspecified Natural Causes. Possibly Climate Change linked.
As to the cause, the Siberian Times preempted the climate-change question.“Could it be linked to the global warming? That were “relatively hot” for the Yamal region, and that “perhaps this has somehow influenced the formation of the crater.”