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A comparative climate study found that last month was the hottest November on record in the world. Temperature records recorded in the northern and southern hemispheres “are consistent with the long-term trend of the global warming“Warned the specialists.

Based on the analysis of the European Climate Change Service Copernicus, November 2020 temperatures were 0.77 ° C warmer, indicating that the numbers were higher than in pre-industrial times. They have increased especially in Siberia, the Arctic Ocean, parts of northern Europe and the United States, Latin America and western Antarctica.

The director of the organization, Carlo Buontempo, reported that so far the highest records included the years 2016 and 2019. However, from December 2019 to November 2020, temperatures increased by 1.28 ºC.

These numbers are looking for an alert because bring the planet closer to the first threshold set by the Paris Agreement on the climate, signed in 2015. The pact signed by 200 States, which have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, aims to contain the increase in temperatures below 2 ºC, and if possible below 1, 5 ºC, to limit the devastating effects of storms, droughts and other heat waves.

But the planet has gained, on average, 0.2 ° C each decade since the late 1970s, insists Copernicus. Global warming is close to 1.2 ºC and 2020 does not appear to be reversing the trend.

The Arctic ice cap has reached its second lowest level. A situation “worrying and which underlines the importance of a global surveillance of the Arctic, which is heating up more and more quickly than the rest of the world”, he underlined.

Meanwhile, the summer in Australia has already recorded its first heat wave, with 48 ºC. For its part, Europe experienced its hottest autumn on record, with temperatures around 1.9 ° C higher.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced last Wednesday that 2020 will be on the podium for the hottest years. Provisional data puts it in second place behind 2016, but the difference is so small that the ranking could change.

Adding the new data from November, “2020 is even closer to the 2016 record,” Copernicus announced on Monday. “These records are in line with the long term trend of global warming”, commented Buontempo.

“These recordings should be considered as red flags and to seek the best means of respecting the commitments of the Paris Agreement, ”he added.