A man holds an umbrella to protect himself from the sun in Seoul on August 14, 2024, as an ongoing heat wave swept much of the country.
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The summer of 2024 is the hottest on record, according to the European Union’s climate monitoring agency, with a staggering succession of temperature records putting the planet on track for the hottest year in human history.
EU Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) explain Global average temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere summer, the period between June and August in the Northern Hemisphere, reached their highest levels on record on Friday.
Temperatures during the summer months were 0.69 degrees Celsius higher than the average for the June-August period from 1991 to 2020. It surpassed last year’s June-August record and was 0.66 degrees Celsius above the average baseline.
Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S, said that the world experienced the hottest June and August. Hottest day on record The hottest northern summer on record occurred in just three months.
“This series of record temperatures increases the likelihood that 2024 will be the hottest year on record,” Burgess said in a written statement.
She added: “Unless we take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the extreme temperature-related events that occurred this summer will only become more severe, with more devastating consequences for people and the planet.”
On July 9, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, a long-lasting heat wave is affecting much of California. In the morning, tourists walked near the “Stop Extreme Heat Hazard” sign on the Badwater Basin Salt Flats. At that time, the temperature Not too hot.
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C3S has been tracking daily global average temperatures since 1940; unprecedented Since the beginning of the year, a number of national heat records have been broken.
extreme heat is more likely The main drivers of the climate crisis are burning of fossil fuels.
scientists have repeatedly Calls for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to halt the rise in global average temperatures.
