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New data shows that the Earth may have briefly crossed a critical global warming threshold last Friday, for the first time since at least record keeping began.
According to Al-Sharq News website, this result was reached through a data set obtained by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), as this data indicated that Friday was the first day on record in which the average global surface temperature exceeded two degrees Celsius compared to levels. Pre-industrial. According to the Youm 7 news website in Cairo
“Our estimates indicate that this was the first day that global temperature was more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, at 2.06 degrees Celsius,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a post on the X platform. .
When compared to the global average surface temperature during the period between 1991-2020, last Friday's global average was 1.17 degrees Celsius higher.
The website warned that the rise in the average surface temperature of the Earth to more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels indicates how quickly the planet is warming, as well as some extreme weather events that may now become possible.
However, he stated that exceeding the two degree Celsius threshold in one day does not mean that the goal of the Paris climate agreement, which is to keep global warming at a level “well below” this percentage, has been exceeded, as the agreement refers to the long-term average over two decades or more. More, not a day, a month, or even a year.
Recording this record is in line with the year 2023, in which many climate-related records have been broken, as it is on track to be the hottest year ever in the world.
Axios explained that the number recorded on Friday remains temporary; Because it is still subject to modification to ensure its accuracy, saying that subsequent information from other sources and different measurement methods may confirm it or differ slightly from it.
The current year witnessed the hottest month ever, last September, and also witnessed the largest margin of temperature increase over all monthly records in history, as all months since last May recorded monthly records for global temperatures, and heat waves swept parts of the country. A large part of the world, from the southern United States to Africa, South America, China and Japan.