Last Updated on 24/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
According to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, July 21, 2024 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. The average surface air temperature worldwide reached 17.09 degrees Celsius on that day, surpassing the previous record of 17.08 degrees Celsius set in July 2023.
Carlo Buontempo, the director of the EU climate monitoring service, stated that “what is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous ‘normal’ temperatures. We are now in truly uncharted territory, and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years.”
The record-breaking heat was accompanied by intense heatwaves affecting vast regions of the United States, Europe, and Russia. Interior California baked with triple-digit heat Fahrenheit, complicating more than two dozen fires in the U.S. West, while Europe sweltered through its own deadly heat wave.
Scientists attribute the supercharged heat mostly to climate change from the burning of fossil fuels and livestock agriculture. Other factors include a natural El Niño warming of the central Pacific Ocean, which has since ended, as well as reduced marine fuel pollution and possibly an undersea volcanic eruption.
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Since June 2023, every month has been recorded as the hottest on record compared to the same months in earlier years. Experts suggest that 2024 may surpass 2023 as the hottest year recorded, driven by climate change effects and the El Niño weather phenomenon.
The record-breaking temperatures serve as a stark reminder of the urgent need to address climate change and its devastating consequences. As Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, stated, “The warming will continue as long as we’re dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and we have the technology to stop it. What we lack is political will.”