Paris:
Historic high levels of global temperature in March, Europe’s climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented summer streak, which has carried forward the limit of scientific clarification.
In Europe, this was the hottest march recorded by a significant margin, Nenicus Climate Change Service said, “rapidly compared to any other, running the extreme of rain in an continent.
Meanwhile, the world witnessed the second hottest march in the Copernicus dataset, which maintains a record or near-record-brakeing temperature since July 2023.
Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 ° C hotter before the industrial revolution, when humans started burning coal, oil and gas on a large scale.
Pre-March-industrial time was 1.6C above, the expansion of an anomaly is so unusual that scientists are still trying to explain it completely.
“We are still above 1.6C, which is really notable,” said Freedrak Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment of Imperial College London, which is really notable. ”
“We are very strongly in the grip of human-inviting climate change,” he told AFP.
Scientists predicted that the global temperature would be reduced after a warming E -Nino incident in early 2024, but they have well equipped well in 2025.
“We are still experiencing extremely high temperatures worldwide. This is an extraordinary situation,” said Robert Watord, a leading scientist at the United Nations climate expert panel IPCC.
‘Climate breakdown’
Scientists have warned that each fraction of a degree of global warming increases the intensity and frequency of excessive weather incidence such as heat, heavy rainfall and drought.
Climate change is not only about rising temperatures, but also the knocking of all extra heat stuck in the atmosphere and seas by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Warm seas mean high evaporation and high moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavy delugges and energy to the storms.
It also affects global rainfall patterns.
Copernicus stated that there was 0.26C from the last hot record for the prescribed month in March 2014 in Europe.
Parts of the continent experienced “dry march on records and their most luxurious” for almost half a century, the European Center for Medium-Rage Weather Forecast’s Samantha Burges said, which runs the Copernicus climate monitor.
Bill McGire, a climate scientist at University College London, stated that the opposite extreme range “clearly shows that a volatile climate means more and large weather extremes”.
“As the climate breaks progress, more broken records are expected,” he told the AFP.
Somewhere else in March, scientists said that climate change intensified a banging heatwave in Central Asia and promoted fuel conditions for excessive rainfall, killing 16 people in Argentina.
Esoteric heat
The great bounce in global heat became the hottest year on 2023 and then 2024 on records.
Last year was also the first full calendar year exceeding 1.5C – the safe warming limit was agreed by most countries under the Paris Climate Agreement.
This single year violation does not represent a permanent crossing of the 1.5C border, which has been measured for decades, but scientists have warned that the target is taking place out of reach.
According to Copernicus, global warming reached an estimated 1.36C over pre-industrial levels in October last year.
If the 30 -year trend continues to grow, the world will reach 1.5 C by June 2030.
Scientists are unanimous that burning of fossil fuels operates largely long -term global warming, and that natural climate variability can also affect temperature from one year to next.
But they are less sure about what else can be contributed to this record heat spike, or how it affects our understanding how climate can behave in the future.
Votard stated that “there were events that are yet to be explained” but exceptional temperature still fell within the upper range of scientific estimates of climate change.
Experts feel that changes in global cloud patterns, aerial pollution and the ability to store carbon in the natural sinks can be one of the factors contributing to the planet’s overheating in forests and oceans.
Copernicus uses billions of measurements from satellites, vessels, planes and weather stations to help its climatic calculations.
Its records go back in 1940, but other sources of climate data – such as snow core, tree ring and coral skeletons – allow scientists to expand their conclusions using much further evidence in the past.
Scientists say that the current period is likely to be the hottest Earth for the last 125,000 years.
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