According to a report, JK Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, has expressed a 95 percent probability that 2024 will be the hottest year since surface temperature records started being recorded around the world in the 1800s. It has also left behind the summer of 2023 when heatwave created havoc in European countries.
The increasing temperature is showing its wrath all over the world. Last month, temperatures were recorded above 45 degrees for several days in many cities of India. A considerable rise was also seen in the temperature at night. Due to this many people lost their lives and the number of patients in hospitals increased.
More than 1 thousand people going on Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia died due to heat. In European countries too, people lost their lives due to rising temperatures. It is a matter of concern that efforts to reduce global emissions are not bearing much fruit. The world’s average temperature in the last 12 months was 1.64 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average.
In June, many countries faced record-breaking heat and devastating floods and storms. According to an analysis by ‘Climate Central’, an independent group of US-based scientists, more than 60 percent of the world’s population faced extreme heat.
Climate Central reported that 61.9 crore in India, 57.9 crore in China, 23.1 crore in Indonesia, 20.6 crore in Nigeria, 17.6 crore in Brazil, 17.1 crore in Bangladesh, 16.5 crore in America, 15.2 crore in Europe, 12.3 crore in Mexico, 121 million people in Ethiopia and 103 million people in Egypt suffered severe earthquakes in June. Suffered the wrath of heat. Temperatures were above average in eastern Canada, the western US and Mexico, Brazil, northern Siberia, West Asia, North Africa and western Antarctica.