Brazil sees temperature rises of up to 3ºC in 60 years
Over the last 60 years, warming in some Brazilian regions has been greater than the global average, reaching up to 3ºC in average daily maximum temperatures in some regions, the report Mudança do Clima no Brasil (“Climate Change in Brazil”) found. According to the study, since the beginning of the 1990s, the number of days with heat waves in Brazil rose from seven to 52 by the beginning of the current decade.“Extreme events—like severe droughts and heat waves—will become more frequent, with the likelihood of unprecedented climatic events,” the report points out.Launched this week, the study is a cross-section of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other current scientific studies—the result of an effort that brought together the Ministry of Sci...