The temperature of our planet is a problem, a huge problem And with every passing day it gets more complicated. And it happens that, like a train, when it reaches its maximum speed, it develops such inertia that it requires an enormous effort to stop it. And even if there are those who don’t seem to realize it (or rather don’t want to), in the end we all pay the consequences and they aim to be worse and worse.

It’s true that There are many factors that contribute to global warming.and that despite the need for global action, some major players (whether we are talking about countries, industries or companies) seem unwilling to do anything or at most take a few timid steps to cover up the matter. . However, every contribution adds up, whether from individual actions or through actions aimed at putting pressure on those most responsible to act more responsibly.

The fact is that the Earth has been warning us with several signals for a long time. The latest, as we can read in Gizmodo, is that on Monday the Earth reached a record average temperature of 17.01 degrees Celsius and rose to 17.18 degrees Celsius yesterday Tuesday. The data comes from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, which collects and evaluates data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal entity on which the popular NHC (National Hurricane Center) depends, among others. ), which monitors and reports on hurricane activity and hurricane events in the Atlantic and Pacific.

17.18 degrees Celsius may seem like a very pleasant temperature, although a bit low for this early summer when we live in Spain, but we have to understand thatThis metric evaluates the temperature of the entire planet (based on a large number of satellite measurements) over a 24-hour periodthat is, it’s a global average, which means we’re talking about daytime and nighttime temperatures, northern and southern hemispheres, and it includes measurements of places like the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as sea and ocean surfaces.

The records used to assign a record to this temperature are all records obtained by temperature analysis systems based on satellite measurements that they cover a span of about 50 years. According to them, the previous record was set in 2016 at 16.92 degrees, a temperature that was reached again in July last year. And ideally, the new board, the current one, would last a long time, but given the current conditions, that seems unlikely.