A new analysis by BBC has found that the number of extremely hot days crossing the mark of 50 °C has doubled since the 1980s.
Also, the tipping temperature is observed in more places with each increasing year, causing havoc and trauma amidst all the human civilization.
The total number of days above 50 °C(122F) has risen in each decade since 1980. On average, between 1980 and 2009, temperatures passed 50 °C about 14 days a year and the number rose to 26 days a year between 2010 and 2019., reported BBC.
Even the temperature mark of 45 °C has also witnessed a sharp jump during the same time period, being recorded an extra two weeks per year on average.
Dr. Friederike Otto, associate director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, “The increase can be 100% attributed to the burning of fossil fuels.”
The 50 °C mark, has been known to exist in the West Asia region for a long but the breach of it in the Temperate regions of Canada and Italy has been concerning said climate scientists. Italy witnessed a record high of 48.8 °C and Canada saw the mercury shoot up to a high of 49.6 °C.
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Dr. Sihan Li, a climate researcher at the School of Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford, according to the BBC study, “We need to act quickly. The faster we cut our [fossil fuel] emissions, the better off we’ll all be.
With continued emissions and lack of action, not only will these extreme heat events become more severe and more frequent, but the emergency response and recovery will become more challenging.”
Experts are of the view that according to this analysis, this high temperature could be dangerous to both the flora and fauna and the whole human civilization in a nutshell, reported the HT Times.
The COP26 Climate Conference to be held in November in Glasgow is going to be a determining one for the whole world. The aim of keeping the temperature below 1.5 °C as compared to the pre-industrial levels needs more stringent measures to follow.
A study from Rutgers University in the US published last year suggests that if the current levels of global warming are to continue, as many as 1.2 billion people around the world could face heat stress conditions by 2100.
Already the impact of extreme heat conditions is visible in the world as the frequency of droughts and wildfires is on a rise. Moreover, climate change is also a determining cause to create desertification, which would force people to migrate around the world.
Recently the Groundswell report was published which suggests that more than 200 million people would have to migrate by 2050 within their own countries and create migration hotspots if effective measures are not taken immediately to control the level of global emissions and make it coherent with the level of development in the world, reported TSA.
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