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According to warnings from multinational research institutions, this year will be the hottest year since humans have meteorological records.

Since January, the high temperature record from Antarctica to Greenland has been broken; in February, the temperature of the Antarctic continent exceeded 20 degrees Celsius for the first time. 3 degrees Celsius; China expects that after this round of “rocket-style” temperature increase, the Huanghuai region in North China is also expected to “break” the record of the hottest “May Day” holiday since 1951. The high temperature around the world has surprised scientists because 2020 is not the so-called “El Niño year”.

Now, the new coronavirus is pandemic globally, becoming the world ’s largest crisis in 2020, but UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that once we have survived this current crisis and recover from COVID-19, we will face More “severe emergencies” than coronavirus, the earth is experiencing an environmental crisis, biodiversity is declining sharply, and climate destruction is approaching desperation.

Since January, the global high-temperature record from Antarctica to Greenland has been broken, which surprised many scientists because 2020 is not the so-called “El Niño year”.

Meteorologists say that this year will be the hottest year since weather records. Although the current coronavirus pandemic, global blockade measures can temporarily reduce air pollution, but the earth has not cooled down. Scientists also said that we also need far-reaching long-term measures to ensure that the climate cools.

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According to estimates by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2020 will probably be the hottest year since weather records are available. According to the agency, the current temperature trend is very similar to the record in 2016. At that time, it was due to the extremely strong El Niño phenomenon. The temperature soared at the beginning of the year and then fell back.

Another calculation by Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Space Research Institute in New York, found that this year there is a 60% chance of setting a historical record.

The British Meteorological Office (Met Office) is more cautious and expects a 50% chance of setting a new record in 2020, but the British agency said that this year will continue the warm years since 2015, And 2015 was the hottest period on record.

January this year became the hottest month in history, and there was no snowfall in many capitals of Arctic countries; in February this year, a research base in Antarctica recorded that the temperature of the Antarctic continent exceeded 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time. degree).

At the other end of the world, Greenland set a record of 6 degrees Celsius in April. However, in the hot summer last year, 600 billion tons of ice melted around Greenland, resulting in a global sea level rise of 2.2 mm in just two months.

In the first quarter of this year, the warming in Eastern Europe and Asia was also the most obvious, with the temperature being 3 degrees Celsius higher than the average. In recent weeks, most parts of the United States have been extremely hot. According to data from the National Weather Service, last Friday, the temperature in downtown Los Angeles reached its highest point of 34 degrees Celsius since April this year, and Western Australia also experienced record high temperatures.

In the UK, this trendNot optimistic. To date, the highest daily temperature in the UK in April is 3.1 degrees Celsius above average, setting the highest records in Cornwall, Dyfed and Gwynedd.

University of Oxford climatologist Karsten Haustein said that global warming is approaching 1.2 degrees Celsius before pre-industrial levels, and his online tracking system shows that the temperature rise is relatively conservative due to data differences. It is 1.14 degrees Celsius, but once combined with the latest data, the temperature increase may rise to 1.17 degrees Celsius or higher.

Haustein said that although the human activity has been greatly reduced and the greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus, the climate problem has not improved because the total amount of greenhouse gases is too large. “The climate crisis continues unabated.”

Climate spokesperson Grahame Madge of the British Meteorological Agency agrees: “Relying on and trusting science to provide information for government society to take action to solve global emergencies is the solution to the next climate change facing humanity. Required measures. “

High temperatures in many places during the May 1st period or breaking historical extremes

According to the Central Meteorological Observatory, during the May Day this year, most of China ’s temperatures will be 1-3 degrees Celsius higher than normal, and some areas will be 3-5 degrees Celsius higher. Eastern and central North China, northern and western Huanghuai The highest temperature in some parts of the country can reach 35-37 degrees Celsius.

Not long ago, meteorological experts said that after this round of “rocket-style” warming, the Huanghuai region in North China is expected to “shock” the hottest “May Day” since 1951, in which the temperature in Beijing may be close to or break The historical record of the same period will start to impact the summer.

The China Weather Network announced on April 30 that Beijing’s temperature continues to rise, and Yanqing has reached 35 ° C at 14:04, the earliest high temperature since 1959. It is expected that the sunny and hot weather in Beijing will continue in the early days of the May Day holiday. There may be high temperatures in the urban area, and there is a possibility of breaking the historical extreme value.

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Reference:
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