This Monday (3) was the hottest day on record globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The global average temperature hit 17.01°C, beating the August 2016 record of 16.92°C, as heatwaves spread across the globe.
The southern US has been suffering from an intense heat wave in recent weeks. In China, temperatures were above 35°C. North Africa recorded temperatures close to 50°C.
And even Antarctica, currently in its winter, has recorded unusually high temperatures. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base on Argentina’s “white continent” islands recently broke the July temperature record at 8.7°C.
“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London in Britain.
“It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems,” he added.
The scientists pointed out that climate change, combined with an emerging El Niño pattern, is to blame for the temperature rise.
“Sadly, it promises to be just the first in a series of new records set this year as rising emissions of [dióxido de carbono] and greenhouse gases, along with a growing El Niño event, are driving temperatures to new record highs,” warned Zeke Hausfather, research scientist at Berkeley Earth, in a statement.
Source: CNN Brasil
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