October was the fifth month in a row in which global temperature records were broken. According to EU scientists, the Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years. The UN speaks of a ‘climate collapse’ with extraordinary weather phenomena.
Our Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, the EU climate change agency Copernicus said on Tuesday. This would come from a combination with data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which uses measurements from sources such as ice cores, tree rings and coral deposits.
According to EU scientists, last October was on average 1.7 degrees warmer than estimated before the start of industrialization. “The record was broken by 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is a huge margin,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S. The sea surface has also never been so hot.
Two heat factors
October was another month of ‘extraordinary temperature deviations’. Global warming is mainly due to two factors: One cause is continued greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, which reached a record high in 2022. Second, human-induced climate change is exacerbated by the weather phenomenon ‘El Niño’.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared in September that “climate collapse” had begun: “Our climate is imploding faster than we can handle, with extreme weather events affecting every corner of the Earth.”
American Weather Bureau with the same result
According to the American weather agency NOAA, 2023 will almost certainly be the warmest year on record. The likelihood of this happening is “greater than 99 percent,” NOAA said in mid-October. Accordingly, record global temperatures were also recorded in September. By comparison, the month between 2001 and 2010 was warmer than July on average.
Ahead of the upcoming climate conference in Dubai, Burgess stressed: “The urgency for ambitious climate action for COP28 has never been greater than now.” The consequences of climate change are already being felt.
Thousands of deaths due to extreme weather
This year’s extreme weather events included a flood in Libya that killed thousands of people, intense heat waves in South America and the worst wildfire season Canada has ever seen.
The effects are already noticeable in Austria, including for agriculture. The chairman of the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture, Franz Sittingchenbacher, recently stated: “Climate change is progressing faster than predicted, extreme weather is becoming the rule.”
Source: Krone
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