2022 was officially the UK’s hottest year on record, but anthropogenic climate change makes it 160 times more likely
lifted the ban last year heat hell across the UK, record high temperature It scorches the city and drains the water source of London’s iconic River Thames. On Thursday, the UK Met Office officially confirmed that this was the hottest year on record in the UK.
and news releaseAccording to the UK Meteorological Office, the average provisional temperature for 2022 is 10.03 degrees Celsius (about 50 degrees Fahrenheit), the warmest since records began in 1884. The previous record was 9.88 in 2014.
All the countries in the UK – England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland – each had record average temperatures last year. The average temperature in 2022 is 10.94 degrees Celsius, 0.19 degrees higher than the all-time high in 2014.
the region has experienced above average heat The years have seen average temperatures of 9.4 degrees Celsius in 2019, 9.6 degrees Celsius in 2020 and 9.3 degrees Celsius in 2021. Last year’s temperature was 0.89 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average.
Mark McCarthy, director of the National Weather Service’s National Center for Climate Information, said the news was “a remarkable moment in our climate history.”
“This moment is not surprising because all of the ten hottest years of the year since 1884 have happened since 2003,” he said.
And humans are largely to blame for extreme phenomena. Human-induced climate change has made a 2022 record about 160 times more likely, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Nikos Cristidis, climate attribution scientist at the office, said the researchers will use climate models to explore potential recordings both in the current climate and in a world without “historical human climate impacts.” said to compare.
“The results showed that 10°C could occur as often as every 500 years in natural climates, compared to once every three to four years in present-day climates. .
The news follows a brutal year baking under the sun.
Hot weather persists in June and July scorched the areaalong with the rest of Europe, Asia and the United States, the UK surpassed 40 degrees Celsius in July — 104 degrees Fahrenheit — for the first time in its history. It was so hot that for the first time since 1976, River Thames Dried up in London.
Copernicus, the European climate-observing service, officially announced in September hottest summer ever in Europe Worst drought in 500 yearsthese conditions affect almost two-thirds of the country.
This record heat wave could become the norm in Britain if no action is taken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to a study by the UK Met Office. Greatest human-caused global warming, according to the EPA. Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, record level CO2 emissions in 2022.
In a medium emissions scenario, where emissions levels remain roughly the same until around 2050 and do not decline until around 2100 or beyond, Christidis said, “we could see an average UK temperature of 10°C almost every year.” says. Note, however, that while temperatures may drop in some years, the long-term trend clearly shows a warming trend.
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