October 2022 was the hottest month ever in Europe – Economy

The statement said average temperatures were “about two degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 reference period.”

The European service, which does not have comparable data before the period 1991-2020, had already announced that the summer of 2022 was the hottest on record (1.34 ° C above normal).

“The serious consequences of climate change are clear and we need ambitious climate action at COP27 to ensure emissions cuts with the goal of stabilizing temperatures at a level close to 1.5 degrees set by the Paris Agreement,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Center. EU programme, quoted by AFP.

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to try to stop global warming, is being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, until the 18th.

According to Copernicus, “The heat wave led to record daily temperatures in Western Europe and an unprecedented month of October in Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as in most of Italy and Spain.”

It is the European continent that records the fastest heating on the planet.

In the past 30 years, Europe has seen a temperature increase of more than twice the global average, with an average warming of about +0.5 degrees Celsius (C) per decade, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Copernicus released A week ago.

In October, in some parts of the continent, abnormal heat, as in summer, was added to the lack of rain. “The climate was drier than average for much of southern Europe and the Caucasus,” the statement said.

Conversely, “in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in the regions of France and Germany, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in the northwest of Scandinavia, and in much of Eastern Europe and central Turkey, the weather was wetter than average.”

In the rest of the world, Copernicus noted, “Canada experienced record heat, with temperatures well above average also observed in Greenland and Siberia”.

“Cooler-than-average temperatures have been recorded in Australia, the Far East of Russia and parts of West Antarctica.”

Since the end of the 19th century, the Earth’s temperature has increased by approximately 1.2°C, and about half of the increase has occurred in the past 30 years. This may be the fifth or sixth warmest year ever, despite the effect of the “La Niña” weather phenomenon since 2020 – a cyclical and natural event in the Pacific Ocean that cools the atmosphere, according to AFP.

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