A fire that spread from the River Valley wildfire burns behind a school bus depot in the City of Williams Lake in the B.C. Interior on Sunday, July 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Spencer Stratton
Preliminary data from Copernicus shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 C, beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by 0.01 C. Both Sunday's mark and last year's record obliterate the previous record of 16.8 C, which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.Posted: Jul 23, 2024 6:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 29 minutes ago
Without human-caused climate change, records would be broken nowhere near as frequently, and new cold records would be set as often as hot ones. But it wasn't just a warmer Antarctica on Sunday. Interior California baked with triple-digit Fahrenheit heat, complicating more than two-dozen fires in the U.S. West. At the same time, Europe sweltered through its own deadly heat wave.
Scientists blame the supercharged heat mostly on climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas and on livestock agriculture. Other factors include a natural El Niño warming of the central Pacific Ocean, which has since ended. Reduced marine fuel pollution and possibly an undersea volcanic eruption are also causing some additional warmth, but those aren't as important as greenhouse gases trapping heat, they said.
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