Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union's climate monitoring network said on Friday.
Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth's permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union's climate monitoring network said Friday.
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries have pledged to cap the rise in Earth's average surface temperature to"well below" 2C, and to 1.5C if possible.The heatwave across parts of Siberia and Alaska will cause particular alarm in regions that were engulfed by huge forest fires last year fuelled by record heat, and where Copernicus has warned that"zombie" blazes smouldering underground may be reigniting.
Parts of Europe - from the Balkans to Scandinavia - also saw cooler than average temperatures in May, as did Australia, southern Asia and eastern United States. There has been a sustained period of above-average temperatures since 2002, while the last five years have been the hottest on record, as was the last decade.Australia is one of the last developed countries actively considering new coal-fired power stations
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