Earth is heating up inexorably: July 2021 broke almost all temperature records

If there was a global warming Olympiad, then this summer would definitely take a prize-winning place. It not only broke a lot of records, but also proved that the planet is heating up inexorably. Writes about it with the BBC.

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July 2021 was the third hottest on record in the world and the second hottest in Europe.

European scientists tracking climate change at the European Union's Copernicus Center said on Thursday August 5 that July was a third of a degree warmer than the 30-year average.

It was hotter only at the peak of the summer of 2016 and 2019, and then only by hundredths of a degree. And in Europe, July 2021 was second only to 2010, when, due to the abnormal heat in the western part of Russia, the average temperature in Europe exceeded the indicators of the last 30 years by as much as 1,7 ° C.

However, this July was remembered not only by the unbearable heat, but also by the unusual cold, for example, in the north-west of Russia, in Portugal and Germany, as well as by floods.

But scientists say that even the unusual coolness proves that our planet is warming up.

They have been unanimously saying for a long time that global warming is expressed not in the arrival of cozy warmth to replace the dull chilliness, but in the swinging weather "swing" between cold and heat.

This is because the warming of the planet leads to disruptions in the established cooling system and the circulation of water and air. Droughts, frosts, hurricanes, forest fires and floods are increasing.

Heat from Sakhalin to Patagonia

According to the latest report from European meteorologists, July was warmer than average almost everywhere. And it's an unpleasant trend: nine out of 10 record hot Julys have occurred in the last decade. Seven - for the last seven years.

In Asia, extreme temperatures were noted in Russia (in the Far East and Sakhalin), as well as in regions of Japan and China geographically close to it.

In the western United States and Canada, the heat has not subsided since the beginning of summer. North Africa was warmer than usual.

And in the Southern Hemisphere there were no cold weather. Winter in Patagonia turned out to be extremely mild, and Australia did survive the record heat for the entire time of observations.

But Europe has suffered the most.

In the southeast of the Old World, the abnormal heat was especially noticeable, and forest fires in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey confirm this. On the other side of the continent, incredible heat has covered Northern Ireland, which is usually cool. A similar situation occurred in July in Iceland and Greenland.

The Northeast was no exception either. Helsinki has not seen such a hot summer since 2010, and before that, never at all. And this despite the fact that in July last year in Finland it rained two and a half times more than normal and was 1-2 degrees colder than usual.

And vice versa - in Portugal this time it was cool, and last July turned out to be the hottest in all 90 years of observation.

How bad it is

All this reads like reports from the front. And the world has long come to terms with the fact that it is so.

Climate change on the planet threatens humanity, as it is fraught with natural disasters, mass migration, flooded cities and fields, bankruptcies of insurance companies and states.

Scientists have long known the cause of climate change - emissions into the atmosphere as a result of human activity. And almost every country in the world has agreed to combat this problem by reducing emissions.

Five years ago, the Paris Agreement was signed - all signatory countries pledged to keep the global increase in average temperatures to 1,5 degrees.

However, in 5 years the situation has only worsened. Scientists claim that the planet is warming up twice as fast, so it's high time to set goals much more than 1,5 degrees.

All hopes are placed on the world climate summit in Glasgow in early November. And the acceleration can be given by the epoch-making report, which the UN will publish on August 9.

The report will show how scientists' perceptions of global warming and climate change have changed since the last global report was released in 2013.

This report will form the basis for all actions for the next decade.

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