The speed and intensity of climate phenomena around the world has “surprised the scientific community”, in the assessment of professor at the Institute of Energy and Environment at USP Pedro Luiz Côrtes.
In a report, the Monitoring of Climate Change service of the Earth Observation Program of the European Union pointed out that the year 2022 was the fifth hottest in the world since there are records.
“This causes concern, this repetitive occurrence and manifestations across the planet related to climate change,” said Côrtes to CNN Radio.
The professor explained that the world deals with two simultaneous scenarios related to these changes.
“There is the occurrence of new phenomena, in regions that were not subject to certain situations, such as the heat wave last summer in Canada, for example.”
At the same time, “there is an intensification of phenomena that already occurred: where it’s hot, it gets hotter; where there is already rain, it rains more, and so on.”
The professor points out that the situation is aggravated because “we continue to burn fossil fuels, clear forests and increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”
This scenario can be reversed, however, “only with global action replacing fossil fuels with cleaner sources and promoting carbon sequestration from the atmosphere, with the recovery of forests”.
*Produced by Bruna Sales
Source: CNN Brasil
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