»If you are under 32 years old, you have never lived a month with a global temperature below the average»

Warming during the first half of 2017

Image - NOAA

That is the comment that John H. Knox, United Nations special adviser on human rights and the environment, wrote in his twitter account. Why? Why we have already been 390 consecutive months with global temperatures above the average. 390. There is nothing.

And the worst thing is that the situation for you will not change, at least in the short term: the first half of 2017 was the second warmest in a historical series of 138 years, only surpassed by the records of last year (2016).

If we talk about temperatures, June was one of the warmest, with an anomaly of 0,82ºC on average both on the land and ocean surface. The highest were recorded in Central Asia, Western and Central Europe, and the southwestern United States. On the other hand, in the Scandinavian countries, as well as in the southeastern US, western and eastern Russia, Australia, South Asia, and Antarctica, the records remained below average.

As for Europe, much of the Old Continent had values ​​above the average, to such an extent that several records were broken. Its average temperature during the month of June was 1,77ºC, not much below that of 2003 (1,91ºC).

Phenomena that occurred in June 2017

Image - NOAA

June was starred not only by the high temperatures recorded, but also by the ice at the poles, which continues to melt. At Arctic, the ice cover averaged 7,5% below the average for the 1981-2010 period, being the sixth month of June with less ice since 1979; and in the Antarctica It was 6,3% below the average, a record that was only below that of 2002.

Heat and thaw. Global warming is causing problems in all parts of the globe.


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