The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fueled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. READ:
Climate models suggest a return to El Niño conditions in the late boreal summer, and the possibility of a strong El Niño developing towards the end of the year, Buontempo said.
FILE PHOTO: Corn plants affected by a long drought that finally ended this month by the arrival of rain, is pictured in a farm in 25 de Mayo, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina January 24, 2022. Picture taken January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/ Friederike Otto, senior lecturer at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute, said El Niño-fuelled temperatures could worsen the climate change impacts countries are already experiencing – including severe heatwaves, drought and wildfires.
EU Copernicus scientists published a report on Thursday assessing the climate extremes the world experienced last year, its fifth-warmest year on record.
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