🔥 Hold on to your hats, folks! March just brought the heat—literally! For the 10th month in a row, our planet smashed yet another temperature record. 🌍💥
According to the latest buzz from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), March was the warmest in recorded history. That's a 10-month hot streak! 🌡️🔥
Samantha Burgess, the C3S Deputy Director, sounded the alarm: \"It's the long-term trend with exceptional records that has us very concerned. Seeing records like this—month in, month out—really shows us that our climate is changing, is changing rapidly.\"
Get this: From April 2023 to March 2024, the global average temperature soared to 1.58°C above pre-industrial levels (that's 1850-1900, FYI). 😮🌡️
Extreme weather? You bet. This year, we've seen wildfires raging in Venezuela's Amazon rainforest 🌳🔥, drought wiping out crops in Southern Africa 🌾⚠️, and a potential mass coral bleaching event in the Southern Hemisphere's oceans 🐠🌊.
\"The main driver of the warming is fossil fuel emissions,\" said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. Translation? Our actions are heating up the planet. 🌍💔
But there's hope! El Niño, the weather pattern contributing to the heat, is weakening, which might help cool things down towards the end of the year. 🌦️🍃
Time to act, amigos! Every small step counts in the fight against climate change. Let's make a difference! ♻️✨
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
