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The Climate Change Service, a branch of the European Union's space program, says July this year was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. The global average temperature for the month of July was 16.95 degrees Celsius and according to the data 0.43 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record recorded in July of 2019. Experts say that these temperatures will have serious consequences for both people and also for the planet.
July this year was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. The European organization that monitors the climate, Copernicus, has reached this conclusion.
According to the latest data, the month of July was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than in the pre-industrial era.
The global average temperature for the month of July was 16.95 degrees Celsius and according to the data 0.43 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record recorded in July 2019.
The Climate Change Service, a branch of the European Union's space program, says that normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or tenths of a degree, but this year's gap is unusual.
"The first week of July had two extreme temperature events. And at the time, the Climate Change Service referred to this as the hottest temperature ever recorded. We can now say that not only was the first week of July the warmest on record, but three weeks of July were the hottest on record, and the anomaly relative to the previous July record temperature is so large that it could we say with confidence that it is the highest temperature ever recorded in the month of July", says Carlo Buontempo, from the Climate Change Service, Copernicus.
Experts say that these temperatures will have serious consequences for both people and the planet exposed to increasingly frequent and intense extreme events.
Data released by the Climate Change Service shows that last month was so hot that it was 0.7 degrees Celsius hotter than the average July from 1991 to 2020.
The world's oceans were half a degree Celsius warmer than the previous 30 years, and the North Atlantic Ocean was 1.05 degrees Celsius warmer than average.
Antarctica set record levels for sea ice, 15% below average for this time of year.
"It's an amazing record and makes it pretty clear that July is the warmest month on Earth in ten thousand years," says Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany.
Mr. Rahmstorf cites studies using tree rings and other indicators and says current times are the warmest since the beginning of the Holocene epoch, about 10,000 years ago.
All these data seem to have forced the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to declare:
"Climate change is here. It's scary and it's just the beginning. The era of global warming is over. The era of global boiling has arrived"./VOA
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