Provisional satellite data published by Copernicus on Wednesday shows that Monday was 0.06 degrees Celsius hotter than Sunday
A tourist holds an umbrella to shelter from the sun in Seville, Spain, on July 23, as temperatures rise across southern Europe during a heatwave.Driven by oceans that won’t cool down, an unseasonably warm Antarctica and worsening climate change, Earth’s record hot streak dialled up this week, making Sunday, then Monday, the hottest days humans have measured, according to the European climate service.
In addition to the warmer oceans and Antarctica, the western United States and Canada and eastern Siberia were especially warm in the last few days, Buontempo said.“The climate is generally warming up as a consequence of the increase in greenhouse gases,” he said. The Earth has set heat records for 13 straight months. The global temperature averaged over the past year is more than 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial times, seeming to exceed the global agreed upon limit for warming. When that threshold was set in 2015, it was meant to apply over 20 or 30 years, not just 12 months, he said.
“For most of the last 120,000 years, we were in an ice age and today is clearly warmer than that,” said Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler, adding that studies indicate we are now in the hottest period in the last 10,000 years. “Deaths from high temperatures show how catastrophic it is not to take stronger action on cutting CO2,” which is the main heat-trapping gas, Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald said in an e-mail.
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