{"id":23877,"date":"2024-01-19T18:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=23877"},"modified":"2024-01-19T18:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:40:54","slug":"world-on-brink-of-extreme-weather-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/01\/19\/world-on-brink-of-extreme-weather-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"World on brink of &#039;tipping point&#039; for extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Leicester scientists studying the Earth&#039;s surface temperature have warned that the more frequent extreme weather the world is experiencing will soon reach a tipping point if carbon emissions are not reduced. <\/span><span>Last week, it was confirmed that 2023 was the world&#039;s warmest year on record, driven by human-induced climate change and the naturally occurring El Ni\u00f1o weather event. The name &quot;El Ni\u00f1o&quot; is commonly used to describe the warming of sea surface temperatures that occurs every few years. <\/span><span>Among those studying the Earth&#039;s climate system is the Surface Temperature Research Group, which belongs to the Earth Observation Science Department at the Faculty of\u00a0<\/span><span>physics and astronomy<\/span><span> \u00a0at the University of Leicester.\u00a0 <\/span><span>A group that is also part of\u00a0<\/span><span>National Center for Earth Observation<\/span><span> and is located in\u00a0 <\/span><span>Leicester Space Park<\/span><span> , studies the Earth&#039;s skin temperature using satellites in space and creates records of climate data.\u00a0 <\/span><span>Surface temperatures help researchers determine the Earth&#039;s energy budget and are considered a fundamental climate variable that is important for understanding the Earth&#039;s climate system. (<em>University of Leicester)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Leicester, who study the Earth\u2019s surface temperature, have warned that the more frequent extreme weather events the world is experiencing will soon reach a tipping point unless carbon emissions are reduced. Last week, it was confirmed that 2023 was the world\u2019s warmest year on record, driven by human-induced climate change and the naturally occurring El Ni\u00f1o weather event. The name \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}