Global warming is worsening. The European Union’s climate change monitoring office said on Friday that the world is experiencing its warmest northern hemisphere summer on record.
This year’s boreal summer, from June to August, was the warmest on record. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported this in their monthly bulletin.
The extreme temperatures raise the possibility that 2024 will surpass 2023 as the warmest year on record for the planet.
“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,” said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess.
Severe weather “will only become more intense” unless nations drastically cut their emissions that warm the earth, according to her prediction. The primary driver of climate change is the emissions of greenhouse gases from the combustion of fossil fuels.
This summer’s disasters were exacerbated by the planet’s altered climate. Severe rains fell on Sudan last month, affecting over 300,000 people with flooding. The floods also introduced cholera to the war-torn nation.
Scientists have also proven that climate change is causing the terrible continuous drought on the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily. Climate change strengthened Typhoon Gaemi, which hit Taiwan, China, and the Philippines in July and killed over 100 people.
The scientists cross-checked the 1940 C3S dataset with additional data to verify that this summer was the hottest since the pre-industrial era of 1850.
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