An abandoned canoe lies on the cracked ground at the Sau reservoir, which is only at 5 percent of its capacity, in Vilanova de Sau, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.
The world just experienced its hottest January on record, but that wasn't the only new record it set -- for the first time, the average global temperature for an entire year was 1.5 C hotter than the preindustrial average.An abandoned canoe is shown on Jan. 22 on the cracked ground at the Sau reservoir, which is only at five per cent of its capacity, in Vilanova de Sau, north of Barcelona, Spain. Experts say that the drought has been driven by climate change.
"Now it is the eighth month in a row that we have months that we have never seen so warm in history."Countries agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to prevent global warming surpassing 1.5 C, to avoid it unleashing more severe and irreversible consequences.1:00 "It's not over yet," Buonotempo said, "and we don't expect to reach that point for another decade really. But every day, every month that we approach that date, it will gradually become more likely for days, weeks, months, or years, as in this case, to be above 1.5."
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, did push temperatures higher. But Buonotempo said it wasn't the primary driver of the record temperatures: "The only way of explaining what we have seen — these absolute extremes that we have seen — is to factor in the human-induced warming of the climate system."
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