A fish bone lies on a dry part of the Loire river bed due to the drought amid a record European heatwave in July 2019. photo:Getty
World’s hottest September on record: The pressing threat of a Changing Climate
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily | OCTOBER 7th 2020
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) stated on Wednesday that last month’s September; the September of 2020, was the hottest of its kind in all of recorded human history.
Unusual temperature spikes had been recorded all around the world in the September of 2020, contributing to the disastrous fire season seen across the United States’ California, Siberia, and the Amazon rainforest. All signs, scientists fear, of a gradually worsening situation that humanity’s been warned about since the 70s.
Scientists also fear the repercussions of a warming world, claiming that this year’s fires, severe melting of ice caps in the Arctic, as well as several disastrous flooding incidents across the Asian continent can all be traced back to rising temperatures.
“Globally and in Europe, September 2020 was the warmest September on record,” the C3S wrote on its monthly updated climate bulletin, regarding the noted phenomenon. “Temperatures were well above average temperatures in many regions, with the notable exception of cool La Niña conditions in Eastern tropical Pacific.”
The bulletin added that “Arctic sea ice saw its second lowest September average extent on record, more than 40% below the 1981-2020 average, while Antarctic sea ice extent was slightly above average.”
The data gathered had also shown a gradual change, as the September 2020 temperatures were revealed to be 0.05 Celsius warmer than in September 2019, only one year prior. They were also 0.08 Celsius warmer than the September of 2016. This reveals an undeniable change in the Earth’s climate over the progression of years. The dangerous effects of this climate have already been seen in many of this year’s disasters, though there are fears that this may still worsen in the coming years.
A report made by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) and supported by a group of major oil investors revealed the diminishing progress in battling climate change in the modern world, as it showed that the top oil companies in Europe were failing to meet the previously set United Nations climate targets.