Now that last month’s massive numbers are all in Europe weather Watchdog has officially declared it: July 2023 was the planet’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.
The global average temperature for the month of July was 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit), one-third of a degree Celsius (six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service Announced Tuesday. Global temperature records are often broken by hundreds or tenths of a degree, so this margin is extraordinary.
The US now has a record 15 different weather disasters causing at least $1 billion in damage this year, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday. It’s the biggest disaster in the first seven months of the year since the agency tracked these things back in 1980, when the agency adjusted for inflation.
“These records have devastating consequences for both people and the planet subject to more frequent and intense extreme events,” said Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of Copernicus. There have been deadly heatwaves across the southwestern United States Mexico, Europe and Asia. Rapid scientific studies establish the blame lies with climate change caused by man from burning coal, oil and natural gas.
The previous single-day heat record was set in 2016 and tied in 2022. As of July 3, each day has surpassed this record. It was so hot that Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization unusual announcement It is likely to be the hottest days of the month before it ends. Tuesday’s accounts made it official.
A girl drinks water from a public tap in Madrid, Spain, July 18, 2023 (AP Photo/Paul White)
“We shouldn’t worry about July because it’s a record number, but because it won’t be a record number for a long time,” said Frederick Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London. It is an indicator of the extent of climate change. We live in a very different world, in which our societies have not adapted to live very well”.
The global average temperature last month was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times. In 2015, the world’s nations agreed to try to avoid long-term warming – not individual months or even years, but decades – that is 1.5 degrees hotter than pre-industrial times.
Last month was very hot, Copernicus said, with the temperature 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.3 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the July average from 1991 to 2020. The world’s oceans were half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous 30 years the North Atlantic was 1.05 degrees Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than average. Antarctica has record levels of sea ice, 15% below the average for this time of year.
Copernicus, a division of the European Union’s space program, has records going back to 1940. July will be hotter than any month recorded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and its records go back to 1850. But scientists say it really is. the hottest in a period of time. much more time.
“It’s an impressive record and makes it the hottest month on Earth in 10,000 years,” said Stefan Ramstorff, a climatologist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in Germany. He was not part of the Copernicus team.
Ramstorf was killed studies using tree rings and other proxies showing that current times are the warmest since the beginning of the Holocene, around 10,000 years ago. Before the start of the Holocene, he said, there was an ice age, so it would be reasonable to say that this was the warmest record of 120,000 years ago.
While much of the world erupted in July, the United States had the hottest July 11 in its 129-year record, according to NOAA. But Arizona, Florida, Maine and New Mexico recorded the hottest Jules ever.
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