LONDON: South-Western Europe has been hit with a frightening heat in the past weeks due to forest fires. Many people have died and many people are falling ill. According to the data, this summer season in Europe is hotter than expected. According to experts, if the temperature in European countries is compared to that of India, then it is much higher. The region has experienced as much heat as India has not experienced in the last decade. Leave aside the people, even the infrastructure here is not ready to withstand this heat. On Tuesday, the temperature in Britain went up to 41 degrees, while other places also saw a historical increase. Things are so dire that the runway in Britain has started melting.
On Monday, people were also warned not to leave their homes on behalf of London's Midlands Railway. The railway said in its warning that the track is 20 degrees hotter than the air, that is, if the temperature rises, then it will flatten and bend. Trains in London run at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
On Tuesday, these trains were canceled and in some places their speed was reduced to less than 30 kilometers per hour. UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps has expressed concern over this whole situation. He said, “Roads and runways have started melting and the rail network is also on the verge of faltering. This infrastructure was not prepared for this temperature.
what is the reason for so much heat
It has been told by the Meteorological Department that for the first time a temperature of 40.3 degrees has been recorded in Koningsbe in East England. Experts have blamed climate change for this. He has warned that worse conditions are yet to come. He says that the temperature will be higher than this and it will be very normal. At this time in June, a research was published with the title 'Environmental Research: Climate'.
In this research, scientists have studied the effect of climate change on the weather of a country. Ben Clarke, a scientist at Oxford University and co-author of the study, said, "Heatwaves around the world have become more severe and the reason for this is only climate change.
Agriculture, steel making, cement production and additional sources of forest loss are also contributing to the increase in temperature. Greenhouse gases are transparent to sunlight, which allows it to heat the Earth's surface. Greenhouse gases remain there long enough to spread throughout the planet. Average surface temperatures over land areas now rise nearly twice as fast as global-mean surface temperatures.
Several independent instrumental datasets show that the climate system is warming. The decade 2011-2020 has been warmer by an average of 1.09 °C compared to 1850-1900. The surface temperature is increasing by about 0.2 °C per decade. With 2020 the temperature of the pre-industrial era has reached 1.2 degree Celsius. Since 1950, the number of cold days and nights has decreased, and the number of warm days and nights has increased. Earlier the highest temperature in Britain was 38.7 degree Celsius in 2019. Downing Street said restrictions on railway speeds may be needed to manage hot weather and avoid any potential damage. Rail tracks, overhead power lines and signal equipment may be affected due to extreme heat. UK's hottest day ever, people asked to stay indoors.
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