Government science teams say that 2022 didn't quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who's doing the measuring.
A U.N. panel published a new report on Feb. 28, 2022, summarizing the latest information on global warming and its effect on people.Earth’s fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday.climate changeDespite a La Nina, a cooling of the equatorial Pacific that slightly reduces global average temperatures, the U.S.
Last year was slightly toastier than 2021, but overall the science teams say the big issue is that the last eight years, from 2015 on, have been a step above the higher temperatures the globe had been going through. All eight years are more than 1.8 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times, NOAA and NASA said. Last year was 2 degrees warmer than the mid-19th century, NASA said.
"You can’t take a pill for it so the fixes aren’t easy," McPherson said. "It’s more what you consider a chronic illness like cancer." "Since the mid-1970s you’ve seen this relentless increase in temperature and that’s totally robust to all the different methodologies," Schmidt said.The La Nina, a natural process that alters weather worldwide, is in its third straight year. Schmidt calculated that last year the La Nina cooled the overall temperature by about a tenth of a degree and that last year was the hottest La Nina year on record.
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