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El Niño is just beginning
Schmidt also stressed that the effects cannot be attributed only to the El Niño climatic phenomenon, which, “actually, has just started”.
“What we’re seeing is general heat, pretty much everywhere, particularly in the oceans. We’ve seen record sea surface temperatures, even outside the tropics, for many months now,” he added.
The climatologist also warned of a likely maintenance of the upward trend, mainly due to the continuous release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Current weather phenomena also increase the likelihood that 2023 will be the hottest year on record. According to Schmidt’s calculations, the probability of this happening is 50%. He observes, however, that other scientists reach 80%.
A similar perspective is valid for next year: “We believe that 2024 will be an even warmer year, because we will start to feel the El Niño event that is starting now and should reach its peak at the end of this year.”
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