The EU agency that monitors climate change reported on Tuesday that global temperatures remained at historic peaks in March, prolonging an extraordinary heat ability that has pushed the limits of scientific reason.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, it was the hottest March in Europe ever recorded by a substantial margin. As a result of global warming, global climate fossil fuel emissions keep rising, increasing precipitation levels across the globe faster than any other.
The Copernicus dataset’s second-hottest March nevertheless saw a nearly unbroken stretch of document- or near-record-breaking temperatures that have persisted since July 2023.
Since then, almost every fortnight has been at least 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was before the industrial revolution, when people started burning so much coal, oil, and fuel.
A unique oddity was extended by March by 1.6C above pre-industrial days, which researchers are still trying to explain in its entirety.
The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, Friederike Otto, said,” It is indeed remarkable that we’re still 1.5C above preindustrial.”
She told AFP,” We’re pretty strongly in the hand of human-caused weather change.”
Scientists had anticipated that a warming El Nino event would cause the intense run of global temperatures to drop after it reached its peak in early 2024, but they have steadfastly continued into 2025.
” We are also experiencing world-wide, extremely high temperatures. This is a unique circumstance, according to Robert Vautard, a senior scientist with the IPCC’s weather expert panel at the UN.
” Environmental break”
Experts warn that every tiny bit of global warming causes more extreme weather events like heatwaves, heavy rain, and drought to occur.
Climate change is not just about rising conditions, but also about the negative effects of all that excess heat being absorbed by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and gas in the environment and waterways.
Higher sea temperatures result in more absorption and more atmospheric moisture, which in turn causes heavier deluges and increases storm energy.
World rainfall patterns are also affected by this.
According to Copernicus, March in Europe was 0.26C above the previous hottest document for the quarter set in 2014.
According to Samantha Burgess of the German Centre for Medium-Range Weather Projections, which manages the Copernicus climate check, some regions of the continent experienced the “driest March on history and some their rainfall” for around 50 years.
The opposing extremes” shows evidently how a destabilised weather means more and bigger climate extremes,” according to Bill McGuire, a weather scholar from University College London.
More broken documents are only to be expected, he told AFP.” As weather breakdown progresses, more broken records are only to be expected,” he said.
At the same time as India was experiencing scorching heat and Australia was flooded by floods, weather team CEO Helen Clarkson said,” Constraints over the world economy were making headlines.”
” Our focus is elsewhere, but the risk to the earth is existential,” Clarkson said.
stifling steam
The hottest years on record were 2023 and 2024 due to the global temperature wave.
The Paris climate agreement’s safest warming control, which most countries agreed to, was even exceeded last year for the first full calendar month.
The 1.5C level, which is broken over time, is not permanently exceeded by this one year’s breach. However, experts warn that the purpose is getting in the way of people.
The world did reach 1.5C by June 2030 if the 30-year craze that started that time continued.
According to all experts, burning fossil fuels has largely contributed to global climate over the long term.
They are less certain of the other factors that could have contributed to this record-high warmth.
Vautard claimed that there are “phenomena that remain to be explained,” but the unusually high temperatures also fell within the upper bound of scientific estimates of climate shift.
According to experts, international cloud patterns, flying pollution, and Earth’s capacity to store carbon in organic sinks like forests and oceans could be some of the causes of global overheating.
According to scientists, the Earth’s current climate is likely to be the best in the last 125, 000 years.
