June 2024 Becomes The 12th Month to Surpass 1.5 Degrees Celsius Global Warming Threshold
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The last month was 0.14 degrees warmer than June 2023, said EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) report.
As the world grapples with climate change and soaring temperatures, a worrying statistic has come to light - last month was the hottest June ever recorded on earth, according to the European Union's climate agency. Not just that, June also became the 12th consecutive month to surpass the 1.5 degrees celsius threshold for global warming. Finally, with the first six months of data in for the year, I now estimate that there is an approximately 95% chance that 2024 beats 2023 to be the warmest year since global surface temperature records began in the mid-1800s: pic.twitter.com/nWLfRJ7Yd8
The last month was 0.14 degrees warmer than June 2023, said EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) report. The figures from the EU's climate agency highlight that each month over the past year has consistently broken records for unprecedented heat, making it the hottest respective month ever recorded on the planet. While it is an unusual phenomenon, a similar streak of monthly global temperature records happened previously in 2015-2016.
The 1.5 degrees global warming mark was internationally accepted in the 2015 Paris agreement, where the world leaders of over 200 nations agreed to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
