Europe and the polar areas will experience the brunt of the warming

• The Polar Regions and Europe experienced the most effects of global warming in 2022.
• The third consecutive year of the La Nia weather event helped to cool the waters.
• Temperatures in Europe have risen more than twice as much as the rest of the world.

The Polar Regions and Europe experienced the most effects of global warming in 2022. According to data from Copernicus, the EU’s climate monitoring program, 2022 ranked sixth among all years for worldwide warmth.

With temperatures rising faster than any other region over the past three decades, Europe witnessed its warmest summer on record.

According to Copernicus scientists, global warming continued in 2017 in the same pattern that has already become the new norm.

The third consecutive year of the La Nia weather event helped to cool the waters, although overall temperatures were still about 0.3C higher in 2022 than they were in the 1991–2020 reference period.

According to researchers, this indicates that the last year was over 1.2C warmer than the 1850–1900 era, which is considered to be the beginning of global industrialization.

At the extremes of this intense heat were Europe and the Polar regions.

As a result of the summer heat waves and severe droughts that impacted several parts of Western Europe, including the UK, temperature records were broken in many of these nations.

Even October, which is typically colder in Europe, was over 2C warmer than usual in 2017.

While the west of the continent was extraordinarily hot, the overall temperature in Europe dropped to the second warmest due to milder weather in northern and eastern countries.

According to Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, “We are already witnessing climate change.”

“The heat waves that we saw in Europe over the summer, but also the spring, and also the autumn … many people will remember the heat wave that we had over the New Year’s period as well. So we’re seeing heat waves, not only in the summer but in the rest of the seasons.”

Temperatures in Europe have risen more than twice as much as in the rest of the world over the past 30 years.

The pace of temperature increase on the European continent is the highest in the world, according to the Copernicus service.

Researchers claim that several factors are to blame for this. Europe is becoming warmer as a result of the land areas warming more quickly than the oceans. The proximity to the Arctic, which is warming at a rate that is around four times the world average, is another issue.

The fact that ice reflects light more and absorbs it less is one of the causes. When ice melts, it exposes sections of land or the sea that are darker. This causes more sunlight to be absorbed, which leads to warming.

Aside from Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and China also experienced significant record heat events, with heatwave conditions in Pakistan and parts of India.

Once more, temperatures in the two Polar Regions reached record highs, rising more than 2C above the average between 1991 and 2020 in some locations.

Temperatures rose 3C above usual in northwest Siberia. The temperature at Vostok in Antarctica reached -17.7C, the warmest reading in the 65-year history of the weather station.

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