EU Climate Agency: Another Record High Temperature for March

2024-04-10

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  • The European Union's climate agency, Copernicus, says the world's temperature averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius in March.
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  • The latest monthly temperature means that Copernicus has reported a record high temperature for 10 months in a row.
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  • Copernicus added that the month was 1.68 degrees warmer than the estimated average for the month of March for the period from 1850 to 1900.
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  • The agency calls this period the "pre-industrial" period before oil, gas and coal were used in large amounts.
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  • Since last June, weather agencies have been reporting record high average world temperatures.
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  • Some scientists say they are not surprised by the reports.
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  • This year, a strong El Niño event is affecting weather in many parts of the world.
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  • El Niño is an unusually warm current that periodically appears in the southern Pacific Ocean and changes weather in places around the world.
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  • Jennifer Francis is a scientist with the nonprofit Woodwell Climate Research Center in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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  • She said the periodic warm current is part of high temperatures:
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  • "But its combination with the non-natural marine heat waves made these records so breathtaking."
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  • Francis added that, as the El Niño becomes less intense, the reported temperatures above global averages should go down.
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  • Climate scientists, like Francis, say that human activity is responsible for the record heat.
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  • They say burning coal, oil and natural gas results in more carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.
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  • Those two are called "greenhouse gases" because they are said to "trap heat."
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  • "The trajectory will not change until concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop rising," Francis said.
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  • "...We must stop burning fossil fuels, stop deforestation, and grow our food more sustainably as quickly as possible."
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  • Until then, Francis added, expect more broken records.
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  • The 2015 Paris Agreement is an international plan that sets a goal of limiting the increase of the world's average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius or below.
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  • Its idea is to keep temperatures as close as possible to "pre-industrial" levels.
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  • Samantha Burgess is deputy director of Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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  • She said the new March record temperature was not as high compared to other records.
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  • "We've had record-breaking months that have been even more unusual," Burgess said.
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  • These include February 2024 and September of 2023.
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  • But Burgess noted, the "trajectory is not in the right direction."
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  • For March, Copernicus also reported that global sea surface temperatures averaged 21.07 degrees Celsius.
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  • The agency said this was the highest value ever recorded.
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  • The temperatures are only for the area between 60 degrees south latitude and 60 degrees north latitude.
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  • The Copernicus' official said more needs to be done to control world temperatures.
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  • "We need more ambitious global action to ensure that we can get to net zero as soon as possible," Burgess said.
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  • I'm Mario Ritter, Jr.