Hottest Ever: Breaks Global Warming Records

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Hottest Ever: Breaks Global Warming Records
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Hottest Ever: 2016 Breaks Global Warming Records - Global Warming
Hottest Ever: 2016 Breaks Global Warming Records - Global Warming
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Climatologists from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recorded another increase in temperature: October 2016 turned out to be 1, 2 degrees warmer compared to the usual average.

Thanks to this, the outgoing year claims to be the hottest in the entire history of observations, which have been conducted since the 19th century.

According to UN Deputy Press Secretary Farhan Haq, 16 of the 17 hottest years are in the current century. Also, the United Nations is concerned about the rate of melting of the Greenland ice sheets, which continues to grow.

Now the count goes not by fractions of degrees, but by units, while a change in temperature even by half a degree can radically change the situation in the world.

“In many Arctic regions of Russia, temperatures exceeded the average multi-year indicators by 6-7 degrees. Temperatures in many other Arctic and sub-Arctic regions - in Russia, Alaska and north-west Canada - were at least 3 degrees above normal. measure climate change in fractions of a degree, but this is a completely different picture, said WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas.

After such statements, environmentalists again started talking about global warming. However, no one forgot about it: recent studies show that by 2060 more than a billion people will live in a zone of constant floods and floods, and Spain and Portugal will completely turn into a desert by the end of the century.

It is important that the recorded indicators are close to the critical mark, which was designated by the countries participating in the climate summit in Paris. Recall that then the leaders of the states agreed to keep global warming within 1.5-2 degrees from the average temperature of the pre-industrial era.

However, the climate is changing faster than expected. The El Niño phenomenon has made a significant contribution to the warming, but nevertheless, experts still consider greenhouse gas emissions to be the main reason. And since their volume does not decrease, the thermometer will also continue to creep up. According to forecasts, 2017 promises to be no less hot than this year, although climatologists are not yet expecting new "heat records".

Temperatures in many arctic and subarctic regions - Russia, Alaska and northwest Canada - have been at least three degrees above normal this year. Photo: Global Look Press.

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Much will become clear with the arrival of winter: according to some forecasts, it should become the most severe in the last hundred years, and in all countries of the planet. There is also reason to believe that spring will be late with its arrival in Europe: the temperature will rise to the spring norm only at the beginning of April.

Experts associate such weather phenomena with a disruption in the movement of air masses: snowfalls and storms, which are already raging in some regions of Russia, we owe to cyclones from the south. Behind them, the arrival of cold masses of Arctic air is expected.

We add that this year the climatic results were summed up earlier than usual due to the UN World Conference on Climate Change (COP-22), which started not so long ago in Morocco. In addition, on November 4, the Paris Agreement entered into force, designed to replace the Kyoto Protocol. And now it is becoming clear: in order to prevent an ecological catastrophe, we need to act faster.

Let us also recall that the consequences of global warming continue to spread to the animal world: warming in the Arctic harms African birds, and in Australia, due to climate change, a whole species of mammals has become extinct for the first time.

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