In the last 13 years, the 11 hottest years since the beginning of weather records were recorded

This is according to a study by British researchers published at the climate conference in Bali.

hallelujah!!! From the conference in Bali comes a report that "the US delegation has been flexible" and that "there is a willingness to accept binding restrictions on pollutant emissions", and thus there is a chance that in the coming years the activity to reduce emissions will increase in the US as well. After two weeks of discussions that seemed to be headed for a dead end, the turn/flexibility of the American delegation led to the hope that the major polluters would also join the treaty that would replace the Kyoto treaty.

In the background, reports and studies about the warming and its effects continue to be published: on the ScienceDaily website, a study by the University of East Anglia and the Met Office's Hadley Center is published, from which it turns out that "the last 13 years have been the 11 warmest years since recorded measurement began" The data was taken from the "World Meteorological Organization" (World Meteorological Organization WMO). According to the same data, 2007 is in seventh place, meaning the seventh warmest year since 1850.

Climatic events in 2007 are: the opening of a passage in the Arctic Ocean, from the northwest to Canada, the significant reduction of the "hole" in the ozone, the development of the "La Nina" phenomenon in the center and east of the Pacific Ocean, floods, storms and other destructive forms around the world.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the surface temperature has increased by 0.74 degrees, an increase that was not linear and continuous, since in the last fifty years there was a double increase compared to the hundred years that preceded them.

2007 began as a record breaker: the spring in parts of Europe was one of the warmest on record, when temperatures were 4 degrees above average, heat waves in which the temperature was over 40 degrees hit the Balkans, extreme temperatures - 5 degrees above average - were recorded in Australia. Heat waves in the south of the USA caused casualties, in September a record high of 41 degrees was recorded in Japan.
In the Australian winter, the lowest temperature was recorded at 1.5 below average. South America went through a cold and stormy winter in Chile and Argentina, the temperatures dropped to around minus 20 degrees.
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Here are some data about the past year:
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North America was affected by a drought in wide areas, a drought that was "broken" by rains that began to fall in December. Australia is plagued by an ongoing drought, stopping rains in populated/agricultural areas harms crops as well as the water supply to large cities. China is hit by the worst drought in a decade, a drought that affects 400.000 square kilometers of agricultural land and tens of millions of people.

floods.

Floods hit many African countries. In February, Mozambique was hit by a flood that killed dozens of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and flooded 800 square kilometers of agricultural land in the Zambezi Valley. Torrential rains in Sudan caused floods that destroyed 200,000 homes and affected twice as many people.
Heavy monsoon rains caused a rainy season beyond memory, rains that caused floods and floods in several countries in West and Central Africa, as well as in the Horn of Africa, hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed, a million and a half people were injured. In January - February, rainstorms hit Bolivia, 200.000 people were injured, and about 700 square kilometers of agricultural land were destroyed.
In March-April rainstorms hit Argentina. In May, Uruguay was hit by floods that affected 110.000 people, destroyed crops and houses. In November, storms caused floods that destroyed the homes of half a million people. In February, floods in Iowa caused the death of dozens of people, the water covered half the city with a depth of more than three meters.
In June, torrential rains in southern China washed away and killed dozens of people, mudslides and floods affected 13.5 million people.
Rains caused by the monsoon caused floods in South Asia, thousands died and about 25 million people were affected mainly in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal. May-July were the rainiest months in England since 1766, floods caused by the rains killed 9 people and caused 6 billion dollars in damage.

A short El Nino event in 2006 faded quickly and was replaced by La Nina, sea surface temperatures were measured that were colder than usual north of Australia and warmer than usual in the western Indian Ocean.

storms

In January, the storm Kirill attacked Northern Europe, 47 people perished in the storm, tens of thousands of homes were left without electricity.
24 names have been given to tropical storms in the northwest Pacific Ocean, twice as many as usual, storms that have affected millions of people in southwest Asia.
In the Atlantic Ocean, names were given to 14 storms (of the annual origin - 12), for the first time since 1886 two storms reached category 5. In June, the "Gono" hit Oman, 50 people were killed, 20,000 were injured. In November, "Sider" hit Bangladesh, 3000 people were killed, one and a half million houses were destroyed.

The sea level rise continues, since 1993 an average increase of 3 mm per year according to sea level measurements is 20 cm higher than it was in 1870.

Food for thought ?

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