July is set to become the world’s hottest month on record, as fossil fuel emissions drive climate change and heat waves intensify across the Northern Hemisphere.
They said Earth’s temperature has been temporarily passing over a key warming threshold: the internationally accepted goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed to the calculations and urged world leaders, in particular of rich nations, to do more to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases. Despite years of international climate negotiations and lofty pledges from many countries and companies, greenhouse gas emissions continue to go up.
Usually records aren’t calculated until a week or longer after a month’s end. But Mr Vose, who wasn’t part of the research, his NASA record-keeping counterpart Gavin Schmidt and six other outside scientists said the Copernicus calculations make sense.Mr Buontempo’s team found that 21 of the first 23 days of July were hotter than any previous days in the database.
“It’s way beyond everything we see,” Mr Haustein said in his own press briefing. “We are in absolutely new record territory.”Mr Haustein said even though records only go back to the middle of the 19th century, using tree rings, ice cores and other proxies, he calculates that this month is the hottest in about 120,000 years, which Mr Buontempo said makes sense. Other scientists have made similar calculations.
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