Climate: EU, the hottest in the last 7 years globally

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The past seven years have been the hottest globally and concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane continue to rise. This is what emerges from the annual report of the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Union.

2021 was, continues the annual report of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, among the coolest years, along with 2015 and 2018. But Europe experienced its hottest summer, albeit similar to the previous hottest summers of 2010 and in 2018. July saw episodes of very heavy rainfall in central-western Europe in a region with soils close to saturation, which caused severe flooding in several countries. Among these, the most affected were Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The Mediterranean region experienced a heat wave during the month of July and part of August, with high temperatures particularly affecting Greece, Spain and Italy. Experts from the Copernicus climate change service recall the temperature of 48.8 degrees, a European record recorded in Sicily, although the figure has yet to be confirmed. The preliminary analysis of the satellite data also indicates that the trend towards the progressive increase in carbon dioxide concentrations continued in 2021 leading to an average annual global record of CO2 concentration, approximately 414.3 parts per million (ppm). The month with the highest concentration was April 2021, during which the global monthly average of CO2 reached 416.1 ppm.

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