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https://www.lifegate.it/luglio-2024-caldo-record
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Earth beat another record.For the fourteenth time in a row, the US agency NOAA has collected alarming data regarding the monthly global average temperature.That of 2024 was in fact the hottest July never recorded since values have been recorded regularly.
Global average temperature at +1.21 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels
On average, on the surface of emerged lands and gods oceans around the world, thermometers have made records 15.8 degrees centigrade:a good 1.21 degrees above the pre-industrial period, that is, before mankind began to burn fossil fuels.A slightly different finding compared to the one that was released a week ago by the European Copernicus agency (which uses different data for the calculations), according to which July this year is second, very slightly, only to that of 2023 in terms of heat.
As a result, 2024 as a whole already has the 77 percent chance to become the warmest year ever observed.And it is already certain that he will still be in the top five.Both research bodies agree that the situation is alarming, with record after record being broken as a result climate changes in progress.It is no coincidence that the month of July was marked by extreme heat waves not only in the Mediterranean, but also in other areas of the world.As well as other extreme weather events that have been summarized in a map by Noaa itself.
In Europe in 2023 almost 48 thousand deaths from extreme heat
Heat waves that have not failed to reap a gigantic number of victims.Only in Europe, and only in 2023, are they 47,690 deaths attributable to extreme temperatures, second a study published on August 12 in the scientific journal Nature Medicine.
Only in 2022 was the total death toll higher, with approx 60 thousand cases.And those who pay the worst consequences are the most exposed countries, particularly those in the southern portion of the continent.