The thing is burning! 2019 could be the hottest year in history | Chronic

With record temperatures in Europe and the North Pole, the year 2019 promises to be one of the warmest in modern history, a sign of global warming caused by human activities.

The month of July this year was the hottest month in the world since temperatures were measured just above the same month in 2016, according to data from the European Copernicus Climate Change Service.

According to Copernicus, July 2019 was warmer by 0.04 ° C compared with July 2016, year of the previous record, marked by the influence of the El Niño climate phenomenon.

"July is generally the hottest month of the year in the world, but according to our data, this year], was the hottest since the measurements are made ", the chief of the service said in a statement, Jean-Nol Thépaut.

"With the continuation of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on the global rise in temperatures, records will continue to be beaten"said Thépaut.

The temperature recorded in the seventh month is close to 1.2 degrees above the pre-industrial level, a baseline for the UN climate experts.

The difference between July 2019 and July 2016 is so small that other organizations that collect and badyze the data differently could reach another conclusion, warned the European body.
The US Meteorological Service (NOAA) has not yet released its findings in July this year.

Records in Europe

Europe suffered two heat waves in less than a month: an exceptionally early first at the end of June and a very intense second in July. Several countries like Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France broke records.

France sprayed its temperature record on June 28 with a 46th recorded in Verargues, in the south of the country. The previous one was 44.1º in 2003.

During the second heat wave, late July, it is Paris that broke its historic record, with a temperature of 42.6º, against 40.4º in 1947.

At the worst moment of this cannula, on July 25, several European countries recorded heat records: Germany (42.6 °), Belgium (41.8 °), Luxembourg (40.8 °), Holland (40 , 7 °). United Kingdom (38.7º).

Repeated heat waves are an unequivocal symptom of global warming, although scientists are reluctant to attribute an extreme weather event specific to climate change.

North Pole

According to Copernicus, temperatures were above normal in Alaska, Greenland and parts of Siberia, as well as in Central Asia and parts of Antarctica.

In mid-July, the thermometer reached 21 ° C in Alert, the most northerly inhabited place in the world, less than 900 km from the North Pole, setting an "absolute record" of heat for this military base Canada.

According to the UN, the last four years have been the hottest in the modern history of the world.
With + 1.2º, the year 2016, marked by "The boy" It occupies the first place at the moment, before 2015 and 2017.

And 2019 is about to join the smaller group of the world's hottest five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization.