New York (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to NASA, 2021 was the sixth hottest year in the history of data keeping, since 1880s. On Thursday, experts warned that the extreme weathers, heatwaves that we have been facing the past couple of years can actually aggravate, but âwe can stop making it worseâ. Expect more heatwaves, unpredictable rainfall, and flooding. Essentially, erratic weather patterns and natural disasters will become only more common here on.
In conversation with Global News, Gavin Schmidt, the Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies said that while global warming will continue to negatively impact weather patterns across the globe owing to a degree Celsius rise in Earth’s temperature, “we can stop making it worse”.
According to Schmidt, humanity has reached a no-return point in global warming âa plateau of warming thatâs actually part of an ongoing continued warmingâ. This is mainly due to the increases in greenhouse gases, !notably carbon dioxide and methaneâ, he argued.
He suggested that governments should start immediately keeping under control gasses emmissions so that we can be more âcontrol of our destinyâ. âAll of these things are now being more and more strongly tied to the fact that we have warmed the planet by more than a degree Celsius over the last 100 years,â he added.The annual report by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that the global temperature in 2021 was 1.1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. According to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the oceans are “Storing a heck of a lot of heat”, adding that if it weren’t for oceans’ storage capacity, “the atmosphere would’ve warmed a lot more rapidly.
References
Al-Hakim, A. (2022, January 14). NASA predicts more extreme weather events but âwe can stop making it worse.â Global News.
Milman, O. (2022, January 13). Nearly quarter of worldâs population had record hot year in 2021, data shows. The Guardian.
