Last month was the second hottest Moon in history but interrupted a period that lasted 21 months
Sumber forecasts related to heating the planet photo: Dmitry Rukhlenko / ImageBroker / Profimedia
The world has registered the second warmer month since the weather measurements began, being a month when climate change has fueled a record of record heat in Greenland, scientists announced on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Last month it was the second hottest Mai month in history, exceeded only by May 2024, and contributed to the second hottest spring in the Northern Hemisphere in March-May, the Copernicus for EU climatic changes (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin.
Global surface temperatures were on average 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than in the pre-industrial period 1850-1900, when people began to burn fossil fuels on an industrial scale, C3S said.
May interrupted a period of heat out of the ordinary – 21 of the last 22 months had an average global temperature by 1.5 ° C above that of the pre -industrial period – but scientists warned that this break will probably not last.
“Although it could give a short break for the planet, we expect the 1.5 ° C threshold to be overcome again in the near future, due to the continuous heating of the climatic system,” said C3S director, Carlo Buontempo.
The main cause of climatic changes are greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Last year it was the hottest in the history of the planet.
A separate study, published on Wednesday by the group of climatologists World Weather Attribution, found that the climatic changes caused by humans caused a record heat in Iceland and Greenland last month, where it was about 3 ° C warmer than it would be normally, contributing to an additional massive melting of Greenland.
“Even the countries with cold climate are facing unprecedented temperatures,” said Sarah Kew, co -author and researchers at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Netherlands.
The 1.5 ° C global threshold is the limit that the countries have committed to prevent within the Paris climatic agreement, to avoid the most serious consequences of heating the planet.
From a technical point of view, the world has not yet violated this goal, which refers to an average global temperature of 1.5 ° C over several decades.
However, some scientists have stated that this objective can no longer be achieved realistically and urged governments to reduce CO2 emissions to limit the limit and supply of extreme weather phenomena.
C3S records date from 1940 and are verified crossly with the records of global temperatures dating from 1850.
