According to a peer-reviewed research report published late on Thursday almost all of the World’s population experienced increased temperatures from June to August as an outcome of human-induced climate change.
The northern hemisphere summer of 2023 has been the hottest since records started, with long heatwaves in North America and southern Europe forcing disastrous wildfires and ending in death rates.
July was the hottest month ever experienced, while average August temperatures were also 1.5 Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels.
An analysis by US-Climate Central examined temperatures in 180 nations and 22 regions and discovered that 98 percent of the world’s population was exposed to higher temperatures caused at least twice as much possible by carbon dioxide pollution.
Andrew Pershing, Climate Central’s vice president for science said that almost no one on Earth escaped the effect of global warming during the past three months.
He said that in every nation we could study, including the southern hemisphere, where this is the coolest period of the year, we noticed temperatures that would be challenging – and in some circumstances nearly incomprehensible – without human-caused climate change.
Climate Central estimates whether heat occurrences are caused more potential as an outcome of climate change by comparing monitored temperatures with those caused by measures that withdraw the effect of greenhouse gas emissions.
It said as many as 6.2 billion people experienced at least one day of average temperatures that were at least five times more possible as an outcome of climate change, the leading value in Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index.
