Unum
2024-07-24 15:16:21 UTC
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/24/truly-staggering-earth-records-hottest-day-ever-adding-to-months-of-unparalleled-heat
It marks yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years,
according to the European climate service Copernicus on Tuesday.
Copernicus's preliminary data shows that the global average temperature on
Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius, beating the record set just last year on 6
July by 0.01°C. Both Sunday's and last year's record obliterate the previous
record of 16.8°C, which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the
temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,”
Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. "We are now in truly
uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new
records being broken in future months and years.”
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 Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean, which
has since ended.
Sure Sunday's mark is notable but “what really kind of makes your eyeballs
jump out” is how the last few years have been so much hotter than previous
marks, said Northern Illinois University climate scientist Victor Gensini, who
wasn't part of the Copernicus team. “It's certainly a fingerprint of climate
change.”
It marks yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years,
according to the European climate service Copernicus on Tuesday.
Copernicus's preliminary data shows that the global average temperature on
Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius, beating the record set just last year on 6
July by 0.01°C. Both Sunday's and last year's record obliterate the previous
record of 16.8°C, which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the
temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,”
Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. "We are now in truly
uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new
records being broken in future months and years.”
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 Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean, which
has since ended.
Sure Sunday's mark is notable but “what really kind of makes your eyeballs
jump out” is how the last few years have been so much hotter than previous
marks, said Northern Illinois University climate scientist Victor Gensini, who
wasn't part of the Copernicus team. “It's certainly a fingerprint of climate
change.”