South Korea's Hot Territory Has Doubled Over the Last 9 Years

South Korea's hottest region has more than doubled in size over the past nine years.

This was revealed by the international environmental organization, Greenpeace on Thursday (5/8).

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The findings also led to calls for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as reported by the Yonhap News Agency page, Friday (6/8/2021).

The greenhouse defines any area location where the mean surface temperature at midday exceeds 30 Celsius in August 2021 - as an area of ​​high heat.

Between 2011 and 2019, the area with hot temperatures in South Korea jumped to 27 percent, said Greenpeace, estimating 27 million people, more than half of the country's population, currently live in high-temperature areas.

Between 2011 and 2019, South Korea's Hot Temperature Rise Reaches 87 Percent

Greenpeace said it had made the calculations based on surface temperature data collected by NASA's Earth-observing satellites, known as MODIS, at 1:30 p.m. between 2002 and 2019.

Between 2011 and 2019, the increase in hot temperatures in South Korea was observed to reach 87 percent, except in the Taebaek Mountain Range area in Gangwon Province, east of Seoul.

In Seoul and several other areas, which cover about 6 percent of the land area, temperatures rose more than 1.5 Celsius in that period.

Meanwhile, tips memilih bandar togel terpercaya the start of days with hot temperatures above 30 Celsius has increased over the past four decades in 6 of South Korea's 8 largest cities - excluding Incheon and Daejeon.

When compared between 1981-2000 and 2001-2020, the initial period of hot days increased by 12.7 days in Gwangju, 11.5 days in Busan, 10.6 days in Seoul and 9.3 days in Suwon.

"Because extreme heat is a matter directly related to survival, governments and companies around the world must take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said a Greenpeace official in South Korea.