The suffering came despite predictions that a year-long surge of global heat might soon begin to wane. Instead, in the past seven days alone, billions felt heat with climate change-fueled intensity that broke more than 1,000 temperature records around the globe. That is despite the fact that the latest El Niño was “not in the same league” as the supercharged pattern of 2015-2016. Advertisement“Those effects we typically associate with a stronger El Niño event were much stronger simply because this El Niño occurred in a much warmer world,” he said. Last July brought the hottest average global temperatures scientists had ever seen — the hottest, they estimate, in more than 100,000 years.

Source: Washington Post June 23, 2024 04:51 UTC