REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/FileThe intense northern hemisphere summer heat that drove wildfires across the Mediterranean, buckled roads in Texas and strained power grids in China last year made it not just the warmest summer on record - but the warmest in some 2,000 years, new research suggests. The stark finding comes from one of two new studies released on Tuesday, as both global temperatures and climate-warming emissions continue to climb. Last year's summer season temperatures on lands between 30 and 90 degrees north latitude reached 2.07 degrees Celsius (3.73 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial averages, the study said. "We don't have such data," Esper said. That would account for about 1% of global deaths - roughly the same toll taken by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: bd News24 May 14, 2024 15:29 UTC