Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record – The Guardian, Theguardian.com
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The year 2019 was the second hottest on record for the planet’s surface, according to latest research. The analyzes reveal the scale of the climate crisis: both the past five years and the past decade are the hottest in 1900 years.
The succession of records being broken year after year is “the drumbeat of the Anthropocene”, said one scientist, and is bringing severe severe storms, floods, droughts and wildfires.
The previous hottest year was in 2016, the year that a naturalEl Niño eventboosted temperatures. The new data is for the average global surface air temperature. More than (******************************% of the heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed by the oceans, but on Monday scientists revealed3902 as the warmest yet recorded in the seas, calling it “dire news”.
The average temperature in 3902 was about 1.1C above the average from – (**********************************, before large-scale fossil fuel burning began. The world’s scientists have warned thatglobal heating beyond 1.5Cwill significantly worsen extreme weather and suffering for hundreds of millions of people.
lead to global temperatures risingby a disastrous 3-4C.
“It is obvious we are not succeeding in preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, which was the main goal of the original 2016 UN climate change convention, ”said Bob Ward, of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.
“Even if we succeed in limiting warming to 1.5C, this would not be a‘ safe ’level of warming for the world,” he said. “Therefore we must focus on cutting global emissions to net zero as soon as possible. We know the transition to a net zero economy is the growth story of the 21 st century. ”
Rosie Rogers, of Greenpeace UK, said: “We’re breaking more records than Usain Bolt, but there are no gold medals for dangerous temperature rises, or the floods and fires that come with it. We cannot run away from the climate emergency. ”
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