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'Last month was the hottest September on record by an "extraordinary" margin as
the world flirts dangerously with breaching a key warming limit, the EU climate
monitor said on Thursday.
Much of the world sweltered through unseasonably warm weather in September, in
a year expected to be the hottest in human history and after the warmest-ever
global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
September's average surface air temperature of 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.5
degrees Fahrenheit) was 0.93C above the 1991-2020 average for the month and
0.5C above the previous 2020 record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service
(C3S) said in a report.
Temperature records are normally broken by much smaller margins closer to
one-tenth of a degree.
The report said the figure was "the most anomalous warm month" in its dataset
going back to 1940 and around 1.75C hotter than the September average in the
1850-1900 pre-industrial period.
"We've been through the most incredible September ever from a climate point of
view. It's just beyond belief," C3S director Carlo Buontempo told AFP.
"Climate change is not something that will happen 10 years from now. Climate
change is here."
The unprecedented September temperatures "have broken records by an
extraordinary amount", added C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess.'
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
