According to the European Union’s climate monitor Copernicus, the highest global temperature ever was seen, beating last year’s record and making 2024 likely to be Earth’s hottest year.
Between June and August was 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s 0.69 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991 to 2020 average, Copernicus said in a report.
“During the last three months of 2024, the world experienced the warmest boreal summer on record,” Samantha Burgess, the agency’s deputy director, said in a monthly bulletin.
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This extreme weather is “only going to get more intense,” unless nations around the world cut their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, Burgess said. Emissions from the continued burning of fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change.
August 2023 and 2024 tied for the warmest August on record, while June 2024 was warmer than 2023. He did not set any records.
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“Those sobering numbers show how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,” said Stefan Rehmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research.
Elsewhere, scientists confirmed that Sicily and Sardinia are experiencing severe drought. They also say it intensified Typhoon Gami in the Philippines, Taiwan and China in July, killing more than 100 people.
Separately, China recorded its warmest August in more than six decades, its National Weather Service said, after enduring a summer of extreme weather and heat waves across much of its north and west.
Chinese weather authorities also said July was the country’s hottest month since records began, state media reported.
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