Earth just experienced its hottest October EVER – beating 2015 record by 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit
- October temperatures surpassed previous record set in 2015 by 0.01C
- Temperatures were found to be 0.69C warmer than between 1981 and 2010
- The temperature rise is now around 1.2C above the pre-industrial temperatures
Last month was the hottest October ever recorded globally, reveals data released by the European Union‘s satellite monitoring service.
Temperatures were found to be 1.25F (0.69C) warmer than the 19-year average between 1981 and 2010.
With October temperatures surpassing the previous record held for the month in 2015 by 0.018F (0.01C).
The temperature rise is now around 2.16F (1.2C) above the pre-industrial temperature average, the Copernicus Climate Change Service warned.
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However they added that although it was warmer in much of Europe, U.S and the Arctic – Norway and Sweden, south-western Russia and the central Asian republics were cooler than usual.
September also broke records as it was 0.57C warmer than the average from 1981-2010, although only slightly above 2016.
Copernicus head Jean-Noel Thepaut said: ‘With continued greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting impact on global temperatures, records will continue to be broken in the future.’
Of the last twenty two years twenty have been the hottest on record with temperatures increasing year on year, according to the UN World Meteorological Organisation.
Deadly consequences have been predicted as a result of climate change by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Temperatures could increase by a further 5.8C by 2100, according to scientists predictions.
Yesterday an alliance of more than 11,000 scientists signed a paper which declared the climate emergency before providing a set of effective actions humans could take.
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To limit the damage caused by humans’ greenhouse gas emissions the paper calls for more control over the massively booming global population, currently increasing by over 200,000 people a day.
Adding that population control would have to be approached with methods that ensured social and economic justice in order to sustain a morally and ecologically sound world.
The global group is led by William J. Ripple professor of ecology at Oregon State University and researcher Christopher Wolf.
Professor Ripple said: ‘Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we have continued to conduct business as usual and have failed to address this crisis.
‘Climate change has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected.’
