As climate change emerges as the biggest global destabilizer, the Earth has warmed by about 1.1 degrees Celsius since the turn of the 20th century. According to the most recent analysis by researchers at NASA, the planet is losing its coolness as the years get warmer and warmer.
In a brand-new visualization, scientists have demonstrated how over the past two centuries, the world has experienced global warming, which sharply increased in the last years of the 20th century and has persisted undoubtedly in the 21st. According to a recent NASA report, 2022 was the fifth-warmest year ever.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimate that in spite of a La Nina, a cooling of the equatorial Pacific that marginally lowers global average temperatures, the world's average temperature in 2022 was 14.76 degrees Celsius, making it the sixth hottest year on record. Polar regions were excluded from it.
Warming Rates Nearly Four Times Higher
According to Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit organization of independent scientists, it was the fifth warmest year on record and the hottest year on record for 28 countries, including China, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, and New Zealand. The past nine years have been the warmest on record going back to the start of modern record-keeping in 1880. Accordingly, Earth in 2022 was 1.11 degrees Celsius warmer than it was on average during the late 19th century.
According to GISS research presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union as well as a separate study, the Arctic region is still experiencing the strongest warming trends, with warming rates that are nearly four times higher than the global average.
Researchers worry that 2023 will be warmer than 2022 because of the likelihood of La Nina dissipating and the potential arrival of an El Nino, which contributes to warming. According to NOAA, 1976 marked the last time the Earth's temperature was lower than the 20th-century average.
Reasons For Warming Trends
According to scientists, it's not average temperatures that have a significant impact on people. Extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, droughts, and storms are made worse, more frequent, or both as a result of global warming, which hurts and impacts people.
Wildfires, droughts, nonstop rain, snowstorms, and blizzards affected nearly every nation in the world in 2022, making it one of the worst years for extreme weather events in recent memory.
Researchers contend that the continued release of massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, along with their long-term effects on the planet, is what is causing the warming trend.
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