Last Updated on 06/09/2024 by Arun jain
According to the European Union’s Climate Change Monitor, summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were the hottest on record, making this year the planet’s hottest on record.
After a season of data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Friday Heat waves Scientists around the world have said that human-driven climate change has been exacerbated.
“During the last three months of 2024, the world experienced the warmest June and August, the hottest day on record and the warmest boreal summer on record,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S.
“This range of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood that 2024 will be the warmest year on record,” she said.
In 2023 and early 2024 the warming was boosted by the cyclical weather event El Niño, which warms surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, although C3S scientist Julian Nicholas said the effects were not as strong as they sometimes are.
Meanwhile, the reverse cyclical cooling phenomenon known as La Niña has not yet begun, he said.
Conversely, contrary to the global trend, regions such as Alaska, the eastern United States, parts of South America, Pakistan and the Sahel desert zone of North Africa had below-average temperatures in August, the report said.
The planet’s changing climate is causing disasters this summer.
In Sudan, floods from heavy rains last month affected more than 300,000 people and brought Cholera In a war-torn country.
Elsewhere, scientists have confirmed that climate change intensified typhoons gamey, which broke out in the Philippines, Taiwan and China in July, killing more than 100 people.
Climate targets missed
Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are warming the Earth, increasing the likelihood and severity of climate disasters such as droughts, fires, and floods.
“The temperature-related extreme events seen this summer will only intensify, with even more devastating consequences for people and the planet unless we take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Governments aim to reduce their countries’ emissions to try to keep the rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. But the United Nations has said the world is not on track to meet the deal’s long-term goals.
In June and August global temperatures broke the 1.5C mark above the pre-industrial average – a key threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change.
Scientists won’t consider that threshold to be definitively passed until it has been seen breaching it for several decades.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the average level of warming is currently about 1.2 C.
But C3S said the 1.5C level has been passed during 13 of the last 14 months.
The average global temperature at Earth’s surface in August was 16.82C (62.28F), according to the European Monitor, which takes billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations.
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