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ByEurope’s climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a “shocking” new high.
It was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58C above pre-industrial averages. The UN’s IPCC climate panel has warned that the world will likely crash through 1.5C in the early 2030s. “We know the warmer our global atmosphere is, the more extreme events we’ll have, the worse they will be, the more intense they will be,” Burgess told AFP.
Copernicus records go back to 1940 but other sources of climate data such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons allow scientists to expand their conclusions using evidence from much deeper in the past. “Is it a phase change? Is the climate system broken? We don’t really understand yet why we have this additional heat in 23/24. We can explain most of it, but not all of it,” Burgess said.
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