OR climate change It is increasingly influenced by the planet who experienced the second warmest May after archives began to be observed and fed a heatwave of a record record in the Greenland.
The past month was the second warmer May that the Earth has met-in only May 2024-, closing the second hottest spring (March-May) ever recorded in the northern hemisphere with the climate change leaving her imprint on her. (Copernicus Climate Change Service, C3s).
Earth’s surface temperatures was on average 1.4 degree Celsius higherFrom the pre-industrial period 1850-1900, when people began to burn fossil fuels on an industrial scale, according to the C3s.
This caused a period of excellent heat in which the last 21 of the last 22 months The average world temperature was 1.5 degree Celsius Above the pre -industrial levels – although scientists warned that this period is unlikely to last.
‘Although this can offer a respite on the planetawait that the 1.5 degree Celsius limit will be overcome Again in the near future because the temperature of the climate system continues to grow, “said C3s director Carlo Budabo.
The main cause of climate change is the gas outlets that cause the greenhouse effect due to the combustion of fossil fuels. Last year was the warmest recorded on the planet.
In a separate study, which was published today by the team of World Weather Attribution climate scientists, it was found that the man -caused climate change caused last month wave of heat record in Iceland And Greenland, about 3 degrees Celsius warmer than they would be different, contributing to a huge area of extra melting of the Greenland Ice.
From May 15 to May 21, the ice melted 17 times faster than the historic average in Greenland, the World Weather Attribution team announced.
In Iceland, temperatures exceeded 26 degrees Celsius on May 15, which is happening for the first time on the island on the Arctic borders.
Temperatures In May in Iceland all records break
«Temperatures observed in May in Iceland break all records, exceeding more than 13 degrees Celsius the average of the maximum daily temperatures of May 1991-2020, “according to a WWA study.
In May, 94% of the stations recorded a new temperature record, according to the local meteorological institute.
In the eastern part of Greenland, the hottest day had a temperature of 3.9 degrees Celsius higher than the pre -industrial era, WWA said.
‘A wave of heat around at 20 degrees Celsius does not look like an extreme phenomenon for most people around the world, But it is a truly important problem for this region (…) and this is massively affecting the whole world, “said Friederice Otto of the Imperial College, London, from study authors.
The Arctic warms four times faster than the rest of the world, according to the Nature scientific review.
“Even with cold climate countries are experiencing unprecedented temperatures,” said Sarah Kyu, by study authors and researcher at the Royal Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands.
The C3s files start in 1940 and are contrasting with records of the global temperature dating back to 1850.