Temperatures soared 10ºC above average in May in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the EU’s climate monitoring network said on Friday.
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries have pledged to cap the rise in Earth average surface temperature to “well below” 2ºC, and to 1.5ºC if possible. Copernicus recorded above average temperatures around much of the Arctic between March to May, though the spring was colder in northern Canada.
Overall, global temperatures have risen more than 1ºC since mid-19th century levels, driven mostly by the burning of fossil fuels. This has accelerated melting of Greenland’s kilometres-thick ice sheet, resulting in a net loss of 600-billion tonnes of ice mass for the year — accounting for about 40% of total sea level rise in 2019.
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