There was land and water - it became a desert …
Just as Caesar crossed the Rubicon at one time, so global warming, if you suddenly missed this moment, has already crossed a kind of "red line", behind which it is a direct and inalienable threat to all mankind. Scientists say this is a critical milestone for all of us. At the moment, the climate deserves the greatest possible attention …
As of March 3, the average temperature in the Northern Hemisphere, probably for the first time in human history, exceeded pre-industrial levels by 2 ° C. “Global warming seems to be overdrive,” notes American meteorologist Eric Holtouse.
The meteorological data obtained in February was astounding: the temperature in February broke an all-time record set as recently as January. Temperatures in February were somewhere between 1.15-1.4 ° C higher than the long-term average, and about 0.2 ° C higher than in January. These numbers make February the warmest month on record.
Previously, data were analyzed for the period from the beginning of the industrial era to October 2015, and then the first excess of 1.0 ° C was recorded. This means that the northern hemisphere of the planet has warmed up by 0.4 ° C in just the last five months, although it previously took 29 years (from 1981 to 2010)!
In many regions of the Northern Hemisphere, there was practically no winter. In parts of the Arctic, February was 16 ° C warmer than usual. As a result, the temperature turned out to be several degrees above zero, that is, on the same level with the typical temperature of June, although February is the coldest month of the year in the Arctic.
In the United States, winters have been record-breaking warm in cities from the West to the East coast. In Europe and Asia, in many countries, unprecedented temperatures were recorded in February. In the tropics, record warming has caused the longest coral bleaching ever to occur.
Temperatures in the northernmost permanent settlement, the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, were, on average, 10 ° C warmer than usual in winter. Moreover, within 21 days, starting from December 1, it was positive. This weather anomaly has reduced Arctic ice levels to an all-time low, most notably in the Barents Sea.
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