A group of scientists belonging to the European Union (EU) They warned that the 2023 will be “practically certain” warmer in 125,000 years. This statement comes after data showed that October was the hottest month in the world in that period.
Heat is the result of continuous emissions of greenhouse gases coming from the human activity, combined with the appearance this year of the weather pattern The boythat warms the surface waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
He climate change feed phenomena extremes increasingly destructive. This year there were floods in which thousands of people died Libya, serious heat waves in South America and the worst fire season ever recorded in Canada.
“We must not allow this year’s devastating floods, fires, storms and heat waves to become the new normal,” he said. Piers Forsterclimatologist at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom.
“If we rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, we can halve the heating rate“he added.
October was the hottest month in the world
He Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the EU noted that last month the previous record October 2019 temperature by a huge margin. “The record was broken by 0.4 degrees Celsiuswhich is a huge margin,” said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess, who described the October temperature anomaly as “very extreme“.
Worldwidethe temperature Average surface air in October was 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than in the same month in the period 1850-1900, which C3S defines as the pre-industrial period.
This increase means that 2023 is now “practically safe” what will be the warmest year on record, C3S said in a statement. He previous record dated from 2016another year of The boy.
The C3S data set dates back to 1940. “When we combine our data with the IPCC, we can say that this is the warmest year in the last 125,000 years,” Burgess said, referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. UN Climate Change.
Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, said: “The global warming additional of The boy is added to the constant ramp of the man-made warming“.
Source: Ambito
