23 Luglio 2023 – Diario Prevenzione

Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared – new research

23 Luglio 2023 di editor

Northern Europe will experience the greatest relative increase in uncomfortably hot days if global temperature rise reaches 2℃.
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Jesus Lizana, University of Oxford; Nicole Miranda, University of Oxford, and Radhika Khosla, University of Oxford

Limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5℃ is getting harder. A recent UN report even stated that there is now “no credible pathway” to achieve this goal.

Our planet has entered uncharted territory, with all kinds of records being broken. For four consecutive days at the start of July 2023, Earth experienced its hottest day on record. And the North Atlantic Ocean is currently experiencing the highest sea-surface water temperatures ever recorded.

There is a good chance that many more temperature records will be broken in the coming months. A heatwave is currently sweeping across large parts of southern Europe, with temperatures expected to exceed 40℃ in parts of Italy, Spain, France and Greece. There’s even a chance that the current European temperature record of 48.8℃, could be broken.

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