Experts Found Climate Crisis Causes Unusual Warmer Temperatures in the UK and Europe This October

Climate crisis is fueling the unusual warmer temperatures in the United Kingdom and Europe for the month of October, according to experts.

Temperatures are expected to further increase this coming Halloween weekend.

The non-season, abnormal warm weather comes several months after the historic heat wave that gripped the continent, causing heat-related illnesses and deaths, as well as wildfires.

Climate scientists still retain the aspect that the warm conditions are part of a natural weather pattern.

However, it is reportedly evidence that the global climate change and global warming are contributing to the unprecedented dry conditions.

In particular, scientists claimed the relation between the warm temperatures and the climatic phenomenon is not always linear but are connected.

In general, the climate experts believe that the climate event is aggravating not only weather events but also daily average temperatures.

Some meteorologists earlier this year also linked the massive heat waves or heat domes in the UK and Europe with the climate problem.

In previous studies, climate models show that the changing climate could further worsen extreme weather events in the future.

Climate Crisis and Warmer Temperatures

Part of the jet stream is a natural weather pattern but the impact is being exacerbated by the climate crisis since it gives us not only warmer temperatures but also higher rainfall when we receive one, according to climate change expert Peter Stott, as cited by The Guardian.

The Met Office said it will not only be warm in the UK but also to mainland Europe in the coming days.

However, the warm weather is expected to drop in November.

2022 Europe Heat Waves

The New York Times reported that Europe in July was not prepared for the extreme heat fueled by global warming.

The long-held temperature records were also surpassed in the UK when it reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

Similar records were also shattered in some European countries like Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands when the extreme heat wave engulfed the continent, according to The Guardian.

The recent European heatwave killed over 1,500 people, with Portugal having the highest number of death toll of more than 1,000, Portugal authorities reported.

Meanwhile, the Carlos II Health Institute only placed the heat-related deaths in Portugal to 510, as cited by ABC News.

In the UK, at least five people drowned to death when attempting to cool off in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs during the peak of the heat dome.

Paris Agreement

In recent years, British, European leaders, and other countries have joined a global collective effort to mitigate the impact of climate crisis under the United Nations-led Paris Agreement, also known as the Paris Climate Agreement or Paris Treaty.

Under the agreement, member states are required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the objective of decreasing the global temperature.

Nevertheless, a previous UN report this year highlight the unfulfilled pledges of member countries to lessen the heat-absorbing and environment-damaging greenhouse gases.

The Paris Climate Accords aims to lessen the world's temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius or pre-industrial levels.

One of the major demands of the treat is to lessen the burning of fossil fuels, an industrial human activity attributed to the climate crisis.