the space agency USA (NASA) warned this Thursday that the heat wave recorded in different countries of the world “is no surprise” And? to be continued unless greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere stop.

“The past four decades every decade the temperature rises. Last June was the warmest June on record and we expect July to likely be the warmest July on record,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at a news conference.

According to the expert control of the situation is in our hands“We think it will continue because we keep emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and until we stop doing that, temperatures will continue to rise.”

The weather phenomenon El Niño, according to him, does not in itself justify the current surge.

“We’re seeing widespread heat pretty much everywhere, especially in the oceans, where we’ve seen record sea surface temperatures for months, even outside the tropics, and we expect that to continue,” Schmidt said.

The director of the Goddard Institute stated that the current trend increases the likelihood that records will continue to be broken in the coming years. My calculations indicate thatThere is a 50% chance that 2023 will be the warmest year on record. Others suggest there is a greater than 80% probability. And we think 2024 will be even hotter.”

The head of the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Carlos Del Castillo, added that the heat waves They also extend to the oceans.

“And the problems with ocean temperatures don’t stay in the ocean: they affect everything. Increases in ocean temperatures are causing more extreme weather events and torrential rains in coastal areas,” he said.

NASA convened the press to take stock of recent extreme weather events and discuss how the agency’s research and data enable climate solutions and predictions powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

“NASA is seen as a space agency or an aviation research agency, but it is also a climate agency. We have 25 satellites up there that provide information in real time,” said the organization’s director, Bill Nelson.