2023-09-07 13:23:16
Scientists report that this year’s summer It was the hottest ever recorded …and by a significant margin. CNN reports: June to August was the warmest period on the planet since records began in 1940, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The global average temperature this summer was 16.77 degrees Celsius (62.19 Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus, 0.66 degrees Celsius above the average from 1990 to 2020, surpassing the previous record, set in August 2019, by almost 0.3 degrees Celsius.
Typically, these records, which track the average air temperature around the world, are broken by hundredths of a degree. This is the first set of scientific data to confirm what many believed was inevitable. The planet experienced the hottest June never recorded, followed by the hottest July– both breaking previous records by wide margins. August was also the warmest month on record, according to new Copernicus data, and warmer than any other month this year except July. The global average temperature for the month was 16.82 degrees Celsius, 0.31 degrees warmer than the previous record set in 2016.
Both July and August were estimated to be 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels, according to Copernicus, a key threshold for scientists. We have long warned that the world must remain under control to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. With four months left in the year, 2023 currently ranks as the second warmest on record, according to Copernicus, just 0.01 degrees Celsius below 2016, which is currently the warmest year on record.
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