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Abnormal heat is observed almost everywhere on our planet this year. At the same time, on July 6, the highest average temperature of the Earth’s surface was recorded since the beginning of observations in 1979 – plus 17.23 degrees Celsius.
If you look, for example, the news feed of the agency TASS, then one by one there are such headlines: “Severe heat is predicted in 13 regions of Russia in the coming days”; “In Chuvashia, an emergency regime was introduced due to soil drought”; “Serbia has declared a red alert level due to extremely high temperatures”; “Greek authorities announced measures to protect the population from 40-degree heat”; “In Japan, from July 3 to July 9, almost 4 thousand people were hospitalized due to the heat”; “In the Czech Republic recorded a record heat for mid-July” and so on.
June 2023 has already officially become the hottest since the start of such statistics. This is stated in the statement of the European climate service Copernicus, which, in turn, publishes “Interfax».
“The month was the hottest June worldwide, exceeding the 1991-2020 average by about 0.5 degrees Celsius. It also beat the previous record held in June 2019 by a significant margin,” the statement said. Record high temperatures were observed in the southwest of Europe, temperatures were much higher than usual in parts of Canada, the USA, Mexico, Asia and eastern Australia. At the same time, in the western parts of the United States, Australia and Russia, June became a little colder than usual.
The agency’s message is now being actively quoted in the media and social networks Bloomberg, that the Charon anticyclone approaching Europe from the Sahara can lead to the fact that the temperature in Sardinia rises to an unprecedented plus fifty Celsius. Already from July 19, in the 23 largest cities in Italy, an emergency warning of the Ministry of Health about intense heat will be in effect.
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In another article published the day before, Bloomberg also notes that 2023 is likely to be the hottest year on record. Now this record belongs to 2016 and 2020. For Europe, the maximum recorded temperature is 48.8 degrees Celsius – it rose to this mark in Sicily two years ago.
“The dizzying pace of summer temperature records is a long-predicted grim pattern for experts,” the agency said. “I have been waiting for this for twenty years,” said Camille Parmesan, professor at the National Center for Scientific Research and author of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
One of the main factors behind the current unprecedented heat attack was the first El Niño in four years (a fluctuation in surface water temperature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that has a noticeable impact on the climate).
“Every time we have an El Niño event, we take a little look into the future. This is what will become the new normal for the climate in 5-10 years if our emissions remain at current levels and do not decrease quickly,” said Berkeley climate scientist Zeke Hausvater.
Earth’s temperature has reportedly risen by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the start of the industrial age due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Climate scientists have repeatedly warned that the only way to stop this trend is to drastically reduce industrial emissions, mainly by moving away from fossil fuels.
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It is worth noting that last Sunday in China, which actively uses oil and coal in its energy, the special representative of the US president on climate issues, the former head of the State Department, John Kerry, arrived. According to the Chinese official English-language publication Global Times (GT), climate change has long been seen as an area of great potential for cooperation between Washington and Beijing.
At the same time, it is noted that Kerry’s visit, which took place after recent visits to China by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, can give “positive results in terms of promoting global climate management and stabilizing China-US relations.”
On Monday, Kerry had already held four-hour talks with China’s special envoy for climate change, Xie Zhenhua, who said Beijing looked forward to meaningful dialogue and exchanges on climate change and the transition to a green economy.
However, China-U.S. climate cooperation continues to face hurdles, especially as bilateral relations deteriorate as a result of Washington’s efforts to strategically contain China. “If the US continues its repression against China, escalating tensions and hostility between the two sides, it is unlikely to promote any cooperation, including on climate change issues,” the GT article says.
The top priority of Kerry’s visit is reportedly to get China to record and schedule its annual greenhouse gas emissions, which could spur China even harder to crack down on deforestation and speed up its coal phase-out.
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Mikhail Makarov
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2023-07-18 15:59:00
