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The world’s average temperature climbed to its highest on record on Sunday, according to the European Union’s climate monitoring agency.
EU Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) established On July 21, the global average surface temperature rose to 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), slightly higher than the record of 17.08 degrees Celsius set on July 6 last year.
“On July 21, C3S set a new record for global daily average temperatures,” C3S director Carlo Buontempo said on Tuesday.
“What’s really shocking is how different the temperatures over the past 13 months are from previous temperature records. We’re in truly uncharted territory right now and as the climate continues to warm, we’re bound to see new ones in the future. Records were broken.
C3S confirmed on Tuesday that Sunday’s average temperature hit a new record high going back to 1940.
Before July 2023, the EU climate monitoring agency stated that the previous global daily average temperature record was 16.8 degrees Celsius on August 12, 2016.
CS3 said it had surpassed the previous record 57 days since July 3 last year.
In New York City, the United States, the National Weather Service issued a hot weather warning on Monday that will last until Wednesday night. A woman tried to cool down by spraying water from a fan on a hot day.
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Hot weather has hit much of the United States, Russia and southern Europe in recent days.
extreme heat is More likely The main drivers of the climate crisis are burning of fossil fuels.
Latest CS3 comfirmed Earth’s more than year-long streak of hot weather continues apace in June. Every month since last June has been ranked as the hottest month on Earth compared to corresponding months in previous years.
Some climate researchers have previously warn Continued record-breaking temperatures could bring about a long, hot summer — “and not in a good way.”
Scientists have repeatedly called for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to stop global average temperatures from rising.
