October 2022 was the hottest month on record in Europe, Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation Program, said in a statement Tuesday, after a summer of record temperatures.
The average temperature was “nearly 2ºC above the reference period, 1991-2020,” the statement said.
The European service, which has no comparable data for the period 1991-2020, had already announced that the summer of 2022 was the warmest on record (1.34ºC above normal).
“The serious impacts of climate change are clear and we need ambitious climate action at COP27 to deliver emissions reductions with the aim of stabilizing temperatures at levels close to the 1.5 degrees set in the Paris Agreement” , said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the EU programme, quoted by the AFP.
The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to seek to stop global warming, will take place until the 18th in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
According to Copernicus, a heat wave led to record temperatures in Western Europe and an unprecedented October in Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as much of Italy and Spain.
The European continent is registering the fastest warming in the world.
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Europe experienced its warmest October ever
The highest colder-than-average temperatures were found in Australia, Russia’s far east and parts of West Antarctica.
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According to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Copernicus released a week ago.
In October, in some parts of the continent, the abnormal heat, as in summer, was added to the lack of rain. “The climate was drier than average in most of southern Europe and the Caucasus,” marks the communiqué.
Conversely, “in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in regions of France and Germany, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in the northwest of Scandinavia, in a significant part of Eastern Europe and in central Turkey, the weather was wetter than average”.
Elsewhere in the world, Copernicus noted that “Canada was experiencing record heat, with much higher than average temperatures also seen in Greenland and Siberia.”
“Cooler-than-average temperatures were recorded in Australia, Russia’s far east and parts of West Antarctica.”
Since the end of the 19th century, the earth has warmed by almost 1.2 °C, about half of that in the past 30 years. This year could be the fifth or sixth warmest year on record, despite the impact since 2020 of the weather phenomenon “La niña” – a periodic and natural event in the Pacific Ocean, which cools the atmosphere, according to AFP.
Source: DN
