July 21, 2024 i.e. last Sunday was the hottest day in the history of the earth. Earlier, the earth had recorded such heat on July 6 last year. This information has been given by Copernical Climate Change (C3S) Service. According to this, the global average temperature on Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius. Which broke all the records from 1940 till now.
Due to this terrible heat, heatwaves and forest fires have spread in Europe and America. Earlier this temperature was recorded on 6 July 2024. Then the mercury was 17.08 degrees Celsius. So to speak, there has been a difference of only 0.01 degree Celsius in temperature. But the disasters that will come or are coming because of this will be terrible.
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C3S director Carlo Buotempo said that this is the global mean temperature. The main reason for the heat at this time is the heatwaves going on in the world. South America is struggling with the terrible heat dome. After the heatwave in China, there is now the effect of rain, floods and flash floods. The average temperature has been recorded at 35 degrees Celsius. The mercury has reached 50 degrees Celsius in North Africa.
Disasters due to increasing heat all over the world
Even Antarctica has recorded the maximum temperature during its winter season. The July temperature has been recorded at 8.7 degrees Celsius at Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base on Argentina Island in Antarctica. This is extremely high.
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Scientist Frederick Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College, London, Britain, said that we cannot celebrate such an occasion. We are playing with nature. The temperature is continuously increasing.
Death sentence for people and ecosystem
Frederick said that this is nothing less than a death sentence for people and the ecosystem. This is the result of climate change. Along with this, the effect of El Nino is also being seen this time. Accusations can be made on both of them. But only humans are responsible.
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Berkeley Earth scientist JK Hausfather said that the more carbon emissions, the higher the temperature will be. Emissions, greenhouse gases and El Nino together have raised the temperature in the world. Generally the world’s temperature fluctuates between 12 to 17 degrees Celsius. But it is at maximum now.
The temperature will rise further by the end of July or August.
The average temperature of the earth is highest in late July and early August. But this data was recorded only in the beginning of this month. That means the temperature at the end of July or August can break the record again.
Humans release 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. That too by burning fossil fuels. Due to which the atmosphere is becoming warmer. The icing on the cake is that this time there is also an effect of El Nino in the Pacific Ocean.