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March marks yet another record in international heat

The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10month streak in which each month set a brand-new temperature level record, the European Union's. climate change monitoring service stated on Tuesday.

Each of the last 10 months ranked as the world's hottest on. record, compared to the corresponding month in previous years,. the EU's Copernicus Environment Change Service (C3S) said in a. regular monthly bulletin.

The 12 months ending with March likewise ranked as the planet's. most popular ever recorded 12-month period, C3S said. From April 2023. to March 2024, the worldwide average temperature was 1.58 degrees. Celsius above the average in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial. period.

It's the long-lasting trend with remarkable records that has. us extremely worried, C3S Deputy Director Samantha Citizen informed. .

Seeing records like this - month in, month out - truly. shows us that our climate is changing, is altering rapidly, she. added.

C3S' dataset goes back to 1940, which the scientists. cross-checked with other data to confirm that last month was the. most popular March given that the pre-industrial period.

Already, 2023 was the world's hottest year in international. records returning to 1850.

Severe weather and remarkable temperatures have wreaked. havoc this year.

Climate change-driven dry spell in the Amazon jungle. region unleashed a record variety of wildfires in Venezuela from. January-March, while drought in Southern Africa has wiped out. crops and left millions of individuals facing hunger.

Marine researchers also cautioned last month a mass coral. whitening occasion is most likely unfolding in the Southern Hemisphere,. driven by warming waters, and could be the worst in the world's. history.

The primary cause of the remarkable heat were human-caused. greenhouse gas emissions, C3S said. Other aspects rising. temperature levels consist of El Nino, the weather pattern that warms the. surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

El Nino peaked in December-January and is now damaging,. which might assist to break the hot streak towards completion of the. year.

However in spite of El Nino alleviating in March, the world's average sea. surface area temperature level struck a record high, for any month on record,. and marine air temperatures remained uncommonly high, C3S stated.

The primary motorist of the warming is nonrenewable fuel source emissions,. stated Friederike Otto, an environment scientist at Imperial College. London's Grantham Institute.

Failure to decrease these emissions will continue to drive the. warming of the world, resulting in more extreme droughts,. fires, heatw aves and heavy rainfall, Otto stated.

(source: Reuters)