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Summer 2024 was world's warmest on record
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Recent climate data indicates a trend of increasing extreme weather events and rising global temperatures. The European climate monitor warns that if emissions are not significantly reduced, extreme weather will become more intense. Summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere reached record highs, making it likely that 2024 will be the hottest year on record. The past three months were the hottest on record globally, with temperatures 0.69C above the long-term average. The record warmth was driven by above-average temperatures in countries such as China, Canada, and Australia.
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 temperature-related extreme events witnessed this summer will only become more intense, with more devastating consequences for people and the planet unless we take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This string of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on record.
What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us.
It's really not surprising that we see this, this heat wave, that we see these temperature extremes.
In order for 2024 not to become the warmest on record, we need to see very significant landscape cooling for the remaining few months, which doesn't look likely at this stage.
This all translates to more misery around the world as places like Phoenix start to feel like a barbecue locked on high for longer and longer stretches of the year.
Like people living in a war zone with the constant thumping of bombs and clatter of guns, we are becoming deaf to what should be alarm bells and air-raid sirens.
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perspectives
countries
- 1.Austria
- 2.Australia
- 3.Canada
- 4.Switzerland
- 5.China
- 6.Spain
- 7.Finland
- 8.United Kingdom
- 9.Ireland
- 10.Iceland
- 11.Japan
- 12.Norway
organizations
- 1.European Union
- 2.Copernicus Climate Change Service
- 3.World Health Organization
- 4.Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- 5.Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- 6.United Nations
- 7.University of Michigan
- 8.UN World Meteorological Organization
- 9.Woodwell Climate Research Center
persons
- 1.Samantha Burgess
- 2.Carlo Buontempo
- 3.Jennifer Francis
- 4.Jonathan Overpeck
- 5.Julien Nicolas
- 6.Stefan Rahmstorf