The northern summer season of 2024 noticed the very best international temperatures ever recorded, beating final 12 months’s document and making 2024 prone to be Earth’s hottest 12 months but, in accordance with EU’s local weather monitor Copernicus.
The international common temperature between June and August was 16.8 levels Celsius (62.24 levels Fahrenheit). That’s 0.69 levels Celsius above the 1991 to 2020 common, Copernicus mentioned in a report.
“During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record,” the company’s Deputy Director Samantha Burgess mentioned in a month-to-month bulletin.
The Earth had solely simply shattered and set the document for the most well liked summer season and 12 months in 2023.
This excessive climate “will only become more intense,” except nations internationally urgently scale back their greenhouse gasoline emissions, Burgess mentioned. Emissions brought on by the continued burning of fossil fuels are the principle reason behind local weather change.
The August of 2023 and 2024 tied for the most well liked Augusts ever recorded, whereas June of 2024 was far hotter than that of 2023. July of 2024 didn’t set a document.
What does this imply?
“What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,” mentioned Stefan Rahmstorf, a local weather scientist on the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research.
Elsewhere, scientists confirmed that local weather change is inflicting a extreme drought in Sicily and Sardinia. They additionally say it intensified Typhoon Gaemi which battered the Philippines, Taiwan and China in July, killing over 100 individuals.
Separately, China recorded its hottest August in additional than six many years, its nationwide climate service mentioned, after enduring a summer season of maximum climate and warmth waves throughout a lot of its north and west.
Chinese climate authorities had additionally mentioned July was the nation’s hottest month since information started, state media reported.
mk/nm (AP, AFP, Reuters)
