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Climate monitor says world experienced hottest April on record

by admineconai May 9, 2024
written by admineconai May 9, 2024
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The European Union’s climate change monitoring service has said that the world experienced its hottest April on record, continuing an 11-month streak of unprecedented high temperatures.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) was quoted as saying that since June 2023, each month has ranked as the planet’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years.

The exceptionally warm conditions occurred despite a weakened El Nino – the weather phenomenon that warms the Pacific Ocean and leads to a rise in global temperatures – leading the researchers to blame human-induced climate change.

C3S said that April was 1.58 degrees Celsius (2.84 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than an estimate for the same month in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period.

Read also: Study finds disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought

While there are temperature variations associated with natural cycles such as El Nino, “the extra energy trapped into the ocean and the atmosphere by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases will keep pushing the global temperature towards new records”, said C3S director Carlo Buontempo.

Average temperatures over the last 12 months surpassed the crucial 1.5C (2.7F) warming threshold set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which is calculated over decades, meaning it remains within reach.

Recall that In 2015, almost 200 governments signed an agreement to phase out fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy in the second half of the century. Last year, the United Nations said the world is not on track to meet the long-term goals of that deal, including capping global warming at 1.5C.

Story was adapted from Aljazeera.

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