Heat records are breaking around the world - and this is just the beginning
A heat wave hit India and Pakistan vigorously, breaking a record not recorded since the start of surveillance 122 years ago.
Spring in the United States is more like mid-summer, with higher-than-normal temperatures in May.
Europe suffered a heat wave in early June, with temperatures in Spain and France exceeding 40 degrees
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20/06/2022
Monday, 20 June 2022, 17:56 Updated: 18:29
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March temperatures in the North Pole and South Pole broke records.
In Antarctica they were 15 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record;
In the north, temperatures were 3 degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average, according to researchers.
Since then, climate stations around the world have set heat records, one after the other.
A heat wave hit India and Pakistan vigorously, breaking a record not recorded since the start of surveillance 122 years ago.
Spring in the United States is more like mid-summer, with higher-than-normal temperatures in May.
Europe suffered in early June a heat wave in which temperatures in Spain and France exceeded 40 degrees, and in Britain they were above 30 degrees Celsius.
Scientists are now in a hurry to show that temperatures that break these records are not a coincidence.
A study published last month confirmed that had it not been for humans and their impact on local weather, the heat wave in South Asia would have been much rarer.
Extreme heat in Delhi (Photo: AP, Manish Swarup)
The study shows the dire consequences of global warming on millions of people, even though the average global temperature has risen by only 1.2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
If the temperature rises by 2 degrees, powerful heat waves like the last wave will happen every five years in India and Pakistan, the scientists estimated.
According to the Observer, such extreme heat poses a serious threat to human welfare.
It puts immediate pressure on our body, damaging crops, causing fires, and even damaging roads and buildings.
The main victims are the low-income and poor, those who work in the fields or in factories.
Air conditioning also contributes to the problem: the growing demand and use increases greenhouse gas emissions as the world tries to reduce them.
According to Radica Kosella, a professor at the College of Oxford, "the requirement for refrigeration prevents an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and causes higher global warming."
A heat wave in the western United States
In the video: A heat wave in the southwestern United States (Photo: Reuters)
Heat waves have hit most of India since March.
According to the Meteorological Service, Delhi has a temperature of 42 degrees Celsius and is 25 days higher since the beginning of summer - the highest number since 2012. March 2022 was the warmest since monitoring began 122 years ago.
The damage to agriculture is already visible.
Farmers in northern India have witnessed wheat being burned in the sun.
15% -35% of the wheat in the countries that grow the grain is damaged.
According to climate experts, heat waves are the future of Delhi.
According to them, the process of urbanization in Delhi has led to the loss of 50% -60% of the swamp lands and natural ecosystems that are supposed to moderate the temperatures.
In 2019, a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimated that India would lose “34 million full-time jobs by 2030 as a result of extreme heat”.
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Thousands in the sea.
Extreme heat wave in the UK (Photo: Reuters)
The temperature has not dropped in the city of Phoenix below 27 degrees Celsius in two weeks (Photo: Reuters)
Fires in Spain due to extreme heat wave
In the video: Fires raging in Spain following a heat wave in the country (Photo: Reuters)
Spain has recently been dealing with temperatures above 43 degrees Celsius in some areas due to a heat wave that preceded the summer.
"Spain is traditionally a very hot country, but now it is warming even more," said Ruben del Campo, a spokesman for the National Meteorological Agency Aemet.
The June heat wave came after May which was the hottest in 58 years.
"In less than a month we had two extreme and rare heat waves," he said.
In eight of the 17 regions in Spain, firefighters are fighting fires that have evacuated hundreds of people and destroyed tens of thousands of acres.
In Madrid, residents rushed to the swimming pools, in a city that has one swimming pool for every 157,000 residents.
The official summer only begins on June 21st.
Extreme heat wave in Delhi (Photo: AP, AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
In Phoenix - the hottest city in the United States - the temperature has not dropped below 27 degrees Celsius in two weeks.
More than one hundred million Americans have been instructed to stay in homes in the past week;
Tens of people thousands of cows died of fever.
Tens of thousands of people in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana in the Midwest were left without electricity after storms and floods hit power lines.
The temperature in Phoenix, the fifth largest city in the United States with 1.6 million inhabitants, passed 36 degrees every day in June, with no relief at night.
One of the causes of the extreme heat is the fact that Phoenix is an urban city where the heat is trapped in the concrete and asphalt that have replaced the desert and agricultural soils and exacerbated global warming.
Poland also recorded a surprising heat wave (Photo: Reuters)
Texas is drying up (Photo: Reuters)
In Wisconsin two women died, and in the Maricopa County of Arizona, 48 deaths are being investigated that are apparently related to the heat wave in which the temperature reached 44 degrees.
A total of 16 cities across the United States recorded record temperatures.
In Kansas, 2,000 cows died due to a combination of high temperature and humidity.
Heat deterrents remained in effect from Florida and Louisiana to Mississippi, Kansas, Missouri and Minnesota on the Canadian border.
The heat also spread to the two carolines where the humidity level is also high.
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