Heat wave is not a surprise and will continue: NASA
- July 20, 2023
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POT warned that heat which is registered in different countries of the world”This is not surprising” and that will be continue if the release of greenhouse gases into
POT warned that heat which is registered in different countries of the world”This is not surprising” and that will be continue if the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere does not stop.
“For the past four decades, temperatures have risen every decade. This past June was the warmest on record, and we expect July to be probably the hottest,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a press conference.
According to the expert, control over the situation is in our hands:
We think this will continue because we continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and until we stop doing this, temperatures will continue to rise.
meteorological phenomenon El Niño, in his opinion, does not justify the current wave.
“We are seeing widespread heat just about everywhere, especially in the oceans where we have seen record sea surface temperatures for months, even outside the tropics, and we expect this to continue,” said Schmidt of the US space agency.
2024 will be even warmer
The director of the Goddard Institute said the current trend increases the chances that records will be broken in the coming years.
“My calculations show that there is a 50 percent chance that 2023 will be the hottest year to date. Others suggest that the probability is greater than 80%. and we believe that 2024 will be even warmer“.
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Carlos Del Castillo, head of the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, added that heat waves also travel to the oceans.
“And ocean temperature issues don’t stay in the ocean: they’re affecting everywhere. Rising ocean temperatures are causing more extreme weather events and heavy rainfall in coastal areas,” he said.
NASA brought together members of the press to take stock of recent extreme weather events and discuss how the agency’s research and data are enabling artificial intelligence and machine learning-based climate solutions and forecasts.
“NASA is considered a space agency or an aeronautical research agency, but it is also a climate agency. We have 25 satellites that provide information in real time,” said the director of this organization, Bill Nelson. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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