Temperature records recorded all over the planet
Are you suffering from the heat every day since weeks now?
Do not worry, you are not alone. The entire planet is undergoing the whims of the heatwave. Japan, United States, France… The exceptional heat wave has stifled the northern hemisphere for several weeks and has reached record highs in places in Norway, Algeria and Russia.
“2018 is shaping up to be one of the hottest years on record, with new temperature records in many countries. This is no surprise. The heatwaves and extreme heat we are experiencing are consistent with what we expect as a result of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. This is not a future scenario. It is happening now,” said Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The situation is particularly exceptional in Northern Europe, where the thermometer has exceeded 30 ° C. Temperature records were thus beaten, notably in Norway with 33.7 ° C or in Japan with 41.1 ° C.
Conversely, further south, Spain, Italy, Greece or Turkey are experiencing conversely lower temperatures than normal, according to the WMO.
“Many recent studies have found that the probability of the extreme event has been influenced by human activity, either directly or indirectly. Of a set of 131 studies published between 2011 and 2016 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 65% found that the event’s probability was significantly affected by anthropogenic activities”.
