Earth Reaches Its Sixth Warmest Year Record: Report

Did you know that 2021 was the sixth hottest year ever recorded for Earth? It’s a fact, according to several newly released temperature measurements.

Last week, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with a private measuring group released their calculation for last year’s global temperature, which was confirmed by scientists and the experts that “the exceptionally hot year is part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints of accelerating,”The Associated Press reported.

According to six calculations, 2021 was the fifth- and seventh-hottest year since late 1800s.

According to NASA, 2021 tied with 2018 for sixth warmest, while NOAA put last year in sixth place by itself, the AP reported.

Gavin Schmidt, the climate scientist who heads NASA’s temperature team, said that “long-term trend is very, very clear. And it’s because of us. And it’s not going to go away until we stop increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”

Schmidt said that the last eight years were the hottest, NASA data and NOAA data agree. Their data shows that global temperatures are almost 2 degrees (1.1 Celsius) warmer today than they were 140 years ago.

The report also stated that 2021 was the hottest La Nina Year on record. It did not reflect a cooling off of human-caused climate changes, but instead provided more heat.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency, satellite measurements by Copernicus Climate Change Service in Europe, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville were other groups involved in the measurements for 2021.

Russel Vose, climate analysis chief at NOAA, said during last week’s press conference that “there’s a 99% chance that 2022 will be among the 10 warmest years on record and a 10% chance it will be the hottest on record.”

He stated that there are 50-50 chances that at least one year of the 2020s will be hit. 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming since pre-industrial times— the level of warming nations agreed to try to avoid in the 2015 Paris climate accord.

Both Vose and Schmidt added that this threshold is important, as extreme weather from climate change is hurting people now in their daily lives with about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warming, according to the AP.

According to NOAA, last year’s global average temperature was 58.5°C (14.7°C). In 1988, James Hansen, NASA’s chief climate scientist at the time, made headlines when he testified to Congress about global warming in a year that was the hottest on record. The report stated that 1988’s 57.7 degree (14.3 Celsius) temperature was the 28th hottest on record.

According to Berkeley Earth and the AP, 2021 saw 1.8 billion people living in 25 Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Middle Eastern countries. This includes China, Nigeria Bangladesh, Iran and Myanmar.

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