This year, our planet experienced the warmest February in history

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February 2024 became the warmest February in the entire history of observations. Temperature records are broken for the ninth month in a row.

About this reported in the Climate Change Service of the European Union “Copernicus”, writes Bloomberg.

According to meteorologists, during the last month of winter, the average temperature was 1.77 °C higher than the average temperature of February in the pre-industrial period.

In addition, in February, the average global temperature over the past year was the highest on record – 1.56 °C above the pre-industrial level.

In Europe, this year’s winter has become the second warmest in the entire history of observations on the continent, the Climate Change Service adds.

According to scientists, the cause of global warming is the warming of the oceans due to the weakening of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean.

El Nino is a sharp increase in temperature (by 5-9 °C) of the surface layer of water in the Pacific Ocean. This is a phenomenon of a planetary scale and it directly or indirectly affects the weather of a large part of the Earth.

Due to the fact that the temperature of the near-surface atmosphere over the ocean remains high, there is an increased risk of natural disasters, scientists say.

“The climate is responding to the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If we fail to stabilize them, we will inevitably face new global temperature records and their consequences”– said the director of the European Copernicus Service on Climate Change, Carlo Buontempo.

The service added that the Earth is warming “at a dangerous pace“.

Heat records have been recorded every month since June 2023 – after during the year, an increase in carbon dioxide emissions was recorded. To stop global warming, the share of use of renewable energy sources must be increased, the scientists added.

Preliminary January 2024 became the warmest in the history of observations.