Hottest year recorded on Earth

(Credits:BPR News)

New Delhi – November 2022 to October 2023 was recorded as the hottest period on the earth. Due to the burning of coal, natural gas and other fuels, gases like carbon dioxide were emitted leading to an increase in the global temperature, inferred Climate Central, a social science research organisation in the study undertaken by it.

Over the course of the year, 90% of humanity, endured at least 10 days of high temperatures. The average global temperature was 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial climate, which scientists say is close to the limit countries agreed not to go over in the Paris Agreement — a 1.5 C (2.7 F) rise.

“People know that things are weird, but they don’t they don’t necessarily know why it’s weird. They don’t connect back to the fact that we’re still burning coal, oil and natural gas,” said Andrew Pershing, a climate scientist at Climate Central. “This is the hottest temperature that our planet has experienced in something like 125,000 years,” said Pershing.

“I think the thing that really came screaming out of the data this year was nobody is safe. Everybody was experiencing unusual climate-driven heat at some point during the year,” said Pershing.

Jason Smerdon, a climate scientist at Columbia University, said no one should be caught off guard. “It’s like being on an escalator and being surprised that you’re going up,” he said. ”We know that things are getting warmer, this has been predicted for decades.”

“We need to adapt, mitigate and be better prepared for the residual damages because impacts are highly uneven from place to place,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington.

Signs of increasing global temperature !

Extreme heat fueled destructive rainfall because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, which lets storms release more precipitation. Storm Daniel became Africa’s deadliest storm with an estimated death toll that ranges between 4,000 and 11,000, according to officials and aid agencies.

Drought in Brazil’s Amazon region caused rivers to dry to historic lows, cutting people off from food and fresh water.

At least 383 people died in US extreme weather events, with 93 deaths related to the Maui wildfire event, the deadliest US fire of the century.

One of every 200 people in Canada evacuated their home due to wildfires, which burn longer and more intensely after long periods of heat dry out the land.

Editorial Perspective

There are many reasons for the increase in the global temperature. The major reason is science. The earth and nature were safe until we started glorifying science. Now, the earth is fast moving towards its destruction.