Record values in average global temperatures continue to be recorded due to climate change and the impact of the El Niño phenomenon.
According to the analysis by the Central Climatic Research Organization, daily temperature values for 175 countries, 154 states/regions and 920 major cities were examined between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023.
The Climate Change Index (CSI), which measures how climate change changes daily temperature values due to the use of fossil fuels, is taken to be centered at zero, and the fact that the CSI level is zero relative to the temperature value of a region indicates that climate change is caused by Human activities have no noticeable effect on temperature.
Positive CSI levels of 1 to 5 mean that there is a detectable effect of climate change on temperatures. The CSI shows that at level 1, climate change can be detected and temperature becomes 1.5 times more likely. At CSI levels of 2 and above, this means that the temperature potential increases exponentially.
7.8 million people were exposed to hot weather
During this period, 7.8 billion people, making up 99 percent of the world’s population, were exposed to above-average temperatures due to temperatures exceeding 30-year averages in 170 countries.
Among the regions that recorded the highest average temperature rise were Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, with 1.8 degrees, Tokyo in Japan, with 1.6 degrees, Mashhad in Iran, with 1.5 degrees, Houston in Texas, Barcelona in Spain, Bern in Switzerland, and Vienna. Austria.
It was probably the hottest year in 125,000 years.
It was also determined that this period is likely to be the hottest 12-month period in about 125,000 years, due to the impact of climate change, resulting from the use of fossil fuels and other human activities.
Only Iceland and Lesotho recorded temperatures below normal.
While the average temperature rise in New York State was 1.4 degrees, temperature increases in many Chinese cities ranged between 1 and 1.5 degrees.
All of Türkiye was affected by the hot weather
The average temperature rise in Turkey was 1.6 degrees from November 2022 to April 2023 and 1.1 degrees from May to October 2023.
In the analysis, the average temperature rise over a 12-month period in Istanbul, which is among the major cities in which temperature values were measured, was 1.2 degrees, while it reached 0.9 degrees in Ankara.
Again, during this period, the effects of heat waves caused by climate change were felt three times more than usual by the entire population in Turkey.
Jamaica was the country with the highest CSI at 4.5. This means that the temperature in the country has risen at least 4 times due to climate change.
“No one is safe from climate change”
“This 12-month record is exactly what we would expect from a global climate fueled by carbon pollution, as long as you expose it to temperatures,” Andrew Pershing, vice president of science at Climate Central, said in his review of the analysis. to caution.