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According to new data from the EU’s satellite system, the past seven years have been the hottest ever on record.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service said 2021 was the fifth-warmest year, with some regions registering record-breaking heat. The amount of warming gases in our atmosphere continued to increase as well to alarming numbers.
Scientists have been warning that time is fast running out, with governments now committed to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C to curb climate change.
Europe just lived through its warmest summer, with temperature records in western US and Canada broken by several degrees. Raging wildfires in July and August burnt down almost entire towns and forests, killing hundreds.
Copernicus Climate Change Service director Carlo Buontempo said that these events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps towards a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions.
The data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit as well as measurements taken at ground level. 2021 was deemed the fifth-hottest on record, just marginally warmer than 2015 and 2018.
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