2021 ranks as fifth hottest year as carbon, methane emissions rise
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Cal Fire Firefighter Lassen-Modoc Unit looks on as an aircraft tanker puts a fire retardant in the Dixie Fire. The Dixie Fire is burning trees on a hillside, August 18, 2021 at Janesville, California.
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According to a Monday report, 2021 was named fifth most hottest year, as climate-changing greenhouse gas emission continues to rise.
Annual findings of the Copernicus Climate Change ServiceThe Intergovernmental Agency for European Climate Policy (IGA) shows a continued upward trend in temperature as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere by fossil fuel emission.
Carlo Buontempo director of Copernicus said that “2021 was another year full of extreme temperature with heatwaves across Europe, the Mediterranean and unprecedented high temperatures here in North America.”
After a Himalayan glacier part broke, Muddy Water flows into Alaknanda, India two days later. The flood was in Tapovan region of Uttarakhand’s northernmost state.
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Children splash around on Discovery Green’s splashpad during the heatwave that hit Houston on Thursday, June 17th, 2021.
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Some areas of the world were warmer than others this year. Europe, for example, experienced extreme weather with heat waves in the Mediterranean region and floods throughout central Europe. All 10 of the hottest European years have occurred between 2000 and 2020, while seven of the hottest were in 2014 to 2020.
The agency reported that a June heatwave broke records in North America and caused the continent’s warmest June in history.
In many Canadian provinces, wildfires were also intensified by the extreme dryness in July and august. Dixie Fire was the first to be declared. second-largest fire in California’s history, burning nearly 1 million acres and resulting in poor air quality for thousands of people across the country.
After a night of heavy rain, cars are abandoned along the Major Deegan Expressway in New York City’s Bronx.
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Buontempo declared, “These are stark reminders of the need for us to change our methods and take decisive, effective steps towards sustainable societies and working towards reducing carbon emissions.”
According to the agency, the temperature last year was between 0.3 and 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than the average over the 1991-2020 period and between 1.1–1.2 degrees Celsius lower than the preindustrial average between 1850-1899.
Keeping global temperatures from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius – the level set by the 2015 Paris Agreement that scientists say will avert the worst effects of climate change – would require the world to nearly halve greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade and reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
According to scientific data, the world will see a temperature increase of around 2.4 degrees Celsius before the end of this century.
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