Newscasts - March marks yet another record in global heat

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09/04/2024 17:51

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Description: The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a
10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the
European Union's climate change monitoring service said. Ilan Rubens reports.
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The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month
streak in which every month set a new temperature record. The European Union
climate agency Copernicus, C3S, says March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees
Celsius, or roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit. C3S Deputy Director Samantha
Burgess.

We can say with some confidence that the period that we're living through
right now is the warmest that humanity has faced in the last 100,000 years or
so.

Seeing records like this, month in, month out, really shows us that our
climate is changing, is changing rapidly, and climate change isn't a future
problem. It's a problem that we have to face here and now.

The global average temperature from April 2023 to March 2024, was 1.58 degrees
Celsius above the average in the pre-industrial period. 2023 was the planet's
hottest year in global records going back to 1850. And from a record number of
wildfires in Venezuela to severe drought in South Africa, extreme weather and
exceptional temperatures have wreaked havoc this year. C3S says the primary
cause of the exceptional heat are human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Other
factors pushing up temperatures include El Nino, the weather pattern that
warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean. El Nino peaked in
December-January and is now weakening, which may help to break the hot streak
toward the end of the year