Breaking The Record, May Becomes The Hottest Moon Over The Last Year According To NASA

NASA calls May 2024 the hottest month (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA Last year, NASA revealed that August was the month with the hottest temperature ever recorded. However, NASA is now saying that May this year has held a record high temperature. Based on the findings of NASA scientists, the global average temperature over the past 12 months hit record highs every month. That is, June last year to May this year has always broken new records, but the peak is in this year. This is an unprecedented record according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). With the dynamics of this change in temperature, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that this is real evidence of a climate crisis. "People around the world feel immediately extreme heat in unprecedented numbers. NASA and the Biden-Harris Administration are aware of the importance of protecting our home planet," Nelson said, quoted from NASA's official website. Meanwhile, NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, Kate Calvin, said that temperatures that continue to experience this increase occur due to greenhouse gas emissions. If not overcome, the Earth will continue to set a record for the hottest new temperatures.

"We are experiencing hotter days, hotter months, hotter years," Calvin said. We know that this temperature increase is driven by greenhouse gas emissions and impacts on humans and ecosystems around the world. NASA could know the record for the hottest temperatures by collecting raw data from tens of thousands of meteorological stations on land, on ships, and at sea. The data collected were calculated and analyzed using methods of calculating the variation of the temperature station spacing around the world. From the results of NASA scientists' calculations, it was revealed that the global average temperature over the past year was 1.30 degrees Celsius above the basic temperature of the 20th century. The temperature over the past year was also 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the average late 19th century. NASA explained that the Earth had never had the highest temperature for 12 consecutive months, but had been for seven months in 2015 and 2016. If the problem of greenhouse gas was not resolved, the hottest temperature record would continue to emerge.