{"id":36672,"date":"2021-01-16T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=36672"},"modified":"2021-01-16T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T07:35:05","slug":"human-induced-climate-change-caused-the-northwestern-pacific-warming-record-in-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/chief-editors-choice\/human-induced-climate-change-caused-the-northwestern-pacific-warming-record-in-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Human-Induced Climate Change Caused the Northwestern Pacific Warming Record in August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. A new study led by National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) researchers revealed that this warming record could not happen without human-induced climate changes.<\/p>\n<p>The northwestern Pacific sea surface becomes warm seasonally around August every year. However, it was unprecedentedly high in August 2020, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The extremely high SSTs exceeding 30\u00b0C, which lasted until mid-September, may have intensified tropical cyclones such as Typhoon Haisheng, causing severe damages to the East Asian countries. Although human-induced greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide have gradually warmed the northwestern Pacific Ocean since the mid-20th century, it remains unclear yet how much past human activities may increase the occurrence likelihood of such regional record-warm SSTs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the tropical warm water expansion in the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans is essential for projecting changes in the characteristics of tropical cyclones and other weather events in the future,\u201d said Hideo Shiogama, a co-author and the head of Climate Risk Assessment Section at the Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES. \u201cA quantitative evaluation of what drives regional extreme temperatures happening recently is necessary to take appropriate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nies.go.jp\/whatsnew\/20210114-2\/20210114-2-e.html\">Read more at National Institute for Environmental Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ickq6C\">ENN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. 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