Asia had the second hottest year on record. On April 30th, temperatures reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Jacobabad, Pakistan. As summer came, a heatwave in the European Union could have killed 50,000 people in July alone, and as the vegetation dried up, fires broke out across London, leading France, Spain, and elsewhere. Large swaths of European countries were burned. Drought has hit Europe, the western United States and China, jeopardizing food supplies as crops reach temperature limits, threatening shortages of staple grains and vegetables, and driving up prices of luxuries such as wine. Did.
“The UK had the hottest year on record and Western Europe had the hottest summer on record. say. “It was 40 degrees Celsius [104 degrees F] Temperatures in the South of England. It has never happened and they are totally unprepared. ”
Courtesy of Berkeley Earth
You can see these absurd temperatures in the map above, from another 2022 global temperature report released today by the non-profit research group Berkeley Earth. According to their calculations, by 2022 nearly 90% of the Earth’s surface will be significantly warmer than his 1951-1980 average temperature.
Note the cool blue La Niña band off the coast of South America. See how red the Middle East, Asia, and Europe are in contrast. His Zeke Hausfather, research scientist at Berkeley Earth, said: “The dynamics of the Pacific ocean can lead to greater inter-annual variability, but over the long term, the signals of anthropogenic warming are very clear.”
The map shows the redness extending to the Arctic, showing warmer temperatures in the region that are warming 4.5 times faster than the global average, scientists announced this summer. increase. This is known as arctic amplification. As more ice melts, the dark land beneath it is exposed, absorbing more of the sun’s energy and causing temperatures to rise. This is also from Berkeley’s Earth report.
