A new study revealed that Earth had its warmest quarter on record. The sea surface temperatures are unprecedented and the weather conditions have been extremely harsh.
The report, released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the Copernicus Climate Change Service, confirms that. The intensity worsens Climate change and heat waves.
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Earth’s warmest quarter on record
Impact on air quality and health
reality extreme heat wavesExacerbated by wildfires and desert dust, it has a tangible impact on air quality, human health and the environment.
The period between January and August of this year is the second hottest period on record after 2016, after the extreme warming caused by El Niño.
Climate scientist Alvaro Silva comments for UN News, from Lisbon, on the current scenario and reveals that it can still be reversed.
“It was already expected. This balancing act that we’re achieving now, at the end of the climatic summer, which was the hottest on record, was really expected after a very hot July, which is the hottest on record. August was the second warmest and hottest month on record.
This assessment leads us to think and, above all, to desire more from a point of view Climate action and greenhouse gas reduction. Only by increasing this ambition, from the point of view of greenhouse gas mitigation, will it be possible to mitigate and then counter this growing trend of global warming.
The scientists involved in the research collectively assessed recent global trends and what to expect, given warming temperatures across the ocean basin and increased marine heat waves.
higher than the record set in March 2016
According to the survey, Antarctic sea ice volume remains at a record level for this time of year.
Last month was about 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average between 1850 and 1900. The period between January and August of this year is the second warmest period on record after 2016, after the extreme warming caused by El Niño.
in a whole month August witnessed the highest global average monthly sea surface temperatures ever recorded. with 20.98 °C. Temperatures throughout the 30 days of this period surpassed the previous record set in March 2016.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that the planet had just experienced its hottest summer on record, and that the “climate collapse” had begun.
A new record in the next five years
For the leader of the organization, the worst of climate chaos can still be avoided and there is no time to lose.
on Antarctic sea ice extent It remained at a record low for the time of year, with its monthly value 12% below average.
This data is the largest negative August anomaly since satellite observations began in the late 1970s.
Arctic sea ice extent was 10% below average, but well above the record low level set in August 2012.
In May, a report from the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Met Office indicated a 98% chance that at least one of the next five years would be the hottest on record.
Source: UN News
