Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU’s climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an unprecedented heat streak and raising questions about how quickly the world might be warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The extraordinary heat spell was expected to subside as warmer El Nino conditions faded last year, but temperatures have stubbornly remained at record or near-record levels well into this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And then comes 2025, when we should be settling back, and instead we are remaining at this accelerated step-change in warming,” said Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And we seem to be stuck there. What this is caused (by) \u2014 what is explaining it \u2014 is not entirely resolved, but it\u2019s a very worrying sign,” he told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its latest bulletin, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said that April was the second-hottest in its dataset, which draws on billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All but one of the last 22 months exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the warming limit enshrined in the Paris agreement, beyond which major and lasting climate and environmental changes become more likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU’s climate monitor said on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n