The monitor also reported that global temperatures were around historical maximums in March, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has proven scientific expectations.
Scientists say that the current period is probably the warmest that the earth has been during the last 125,000 years.
The world saw the second most spicy march in the Copernicus data set, maintaining an almost unknown record spell or almost record regrowth temperatures that has persisted since July 2023.
Since then, Virtualy every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) Hijnter than before the industrial revolution when humanity burns massive amounts of coal, oil and gas.
March was 1.6c (2.9f) above preindustrial times, prolonging such an extreme anomaly that scientists are still trying to explain it.
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“That we are still in 1.6c above the preindrial is really remarkable,” said Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in Imperial College London.
“We are very firmly in the control of climate change caused by humans,” he told AFP.
Contrasting extremes
Scientists warn that each fraction of a degree of global warming increases the intensity and frequency of extreme climatic events such as heat waves, heavy rains and droughts.
Climate change is not just about increasing temperatures, but also the effect of all that additional heat in the atmosphere and the seas by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
The warmer seas means greater evaporation and greater moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavier floods and feeding energy in cyclones, but also affect global rain patterns.
In another part of March, the scientists said that climate change intensified an extreme heat wave through Central Asia and fed the conditions for extreme rain that killed 16 people in Argentina.
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Persistent heat
The spectacular increase in global heat pushed 2023 and then 2024 to become the hottest registered years.
Last year it was also the first full calendar year to exceed 1.5 ° C: the safest warming limit agreed by most nations under the climate agreement of Paris.
This represented a temporary, non -permanent violation, or this long -term objective, but scientists have warned that the goal of maintaining temperatures below that threshold is sliding more out of reach.
The scientists expected the extraordinary heat spell to decrease after an El Niño heating event reached its maximum point at the beginning of 2024, and the conditions gradually moved to a NINA cooling phase.
But global temperatures have remained stubbornly high, causing a debate among scientists about which other factors could be promoting heating to the upper extreme of expectations.
The European Union monitor uses billions of measurements of satellites, ships, airplanes and weather stations to help its climatic calculations.
Its records date back to 1940, but other sources of climatic data, such as ice centers, trees and coral skeletons, allow scientists to expand their conclusions using much more evidence in the past.
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