Find out how El Niño and global warming caused temperatures to rise so high in April this year
For those who doubted, global warming is a reality. Its consequences are there: both in cases of extreme heat and unprecedented floods. In this sense, for every extreme weather event that we observe, both in Brazil and in other countries, an alarm appears. A survey shows that April 2024 went down in history as the eleventh consecutive month of record heat on our planet. The data comes from scientists at the European Observatory Copernicus. They looked at the average global air temperature.
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Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), warned in a statement that the El Niño climate phenomenon reached its peak at the beginning of the year. This means that sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific are only now returning to normal.
But he issued a crucial warning: “As temperature fluctuations related to natural cycles like El Niño come and go, the additional energy trapped in the oceans and atmosphere due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations will continue to drive global temperatures to new records.”
According to the observatory, April 2024 saw the highest average surface air temperature ever recorded globally, reaching 15.03°C. This represents an increase of 0.61°C compared to the April 1991-2020 average and 0.14°C compared to the previous record of February 2016.
This continued heat, therefore, only reinforces the urgency of the broad discussion on the climate crisis. Since June 2023 we have seen one month hotter than the other, signaling an alarming situation.
Furthermore, the global average temperature in the last twelve months (from May 2023 to April 2024) is the highest ever recorded, with an increase of 0.73°C compared to the 1991-2020 average and of 1.61°C compared to the average preindustrial of 1850. -1900.
Source: Terra
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