Do you know the origin of the heat that has reached the Earth? NASA also doesn’t

2024 was the hottest year ever. Global warming is a well-known phenomenon, but it is surpassing all predictions, and not even those who see the globe from above can explain why.

“The warming in 2023 was much higher than in any other year, and in 2024 it will be as well,” Gavin Schmidtdirector of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in November. “I wish I knew why, but I don’t.”

“We are still assessing what happened and whether we are seeing a change in the way the climate system works,” he added.

Experts believe that the changes in cloud patterns, air pollution and Earth’s ability to store carbon can be decisive factors, but it will take another year or two to have a clearer idea, explains the

“The record global heat of the last two years has taken the planet into uncharted territory,” he said. Richard Allana climate scientist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

What happened was “at the limit of what would be expected based on existing climate models”, he also said Sonia Seneviratneclimatologist at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. But the researcher also believes that “the general long-term warming trend is not unexpected“, given the amount of fossil fuels that are being burned, he added.

It was believed that the heat felt on the planet this year could be related to the phenomenon of variations in winds and sea surface temperatures. El Niño, which warmed the Earthincreasing global temperatures. But even after its disappearance, the heat persisted.

“It’s difficult to explain this at the moment,” he said. Robert Vautardmember of the UN climate expert panel (IPCC). “We lack a little perspective.
“If temperatures do not fall more sharply in 2025, we will have to ask ourselves about the causes“.

Os oceans, which have acted as a huge “carbon sink” and climate regulator, are warming at a rate that scientists “cannot fully explain,” said Johan Rockstrom of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

“Could this be the first sign that the planet is starting to lose its resilience? We cannot exclude it”, he said.