Record-breaking heat: Monday was world’s hottest day
Al Jazeera
Average global temperature on Monday smashed Sunday’s record for the hottest day on Earth, EU climate monitor says.
The European Union’s climate monitor says Monday was the world’s hottest day on record after it inched past Sunday’s high as swaths of Europe, Asia and North America experienced blistering temperatures.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday that the global average surface air temperature on July 22 rose to 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit) – or 0.06 degrees Celsius higher than the record set just a day earlier.
C3S has been tracking such patterns since 1940.
“This is exactly what climate science told us would happen if the world continued burning coal, oil and gas,” Joyce Kimutai, a climate scientist from Imperial College London, told the AFP news agency.
“And it will continue getting hotter until we stop burning fossil fuels and reach net zero emissions.”
