The European climate service Copernicus says that Earth Sunday sizzled to the hottest day measured by humans
Scientists blame the supercharged heat mostly on climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas and on livestock agricultureOn Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius , beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by .01 degrees Celsius .
But it wasn't just a warmer Antarctica on Sunday. Interior California baked with triple digit heat Fahrenheit, complicating more than two dozen fires in the U.S. West. At the same time, Europe sweltered through its own deadly heat wave.-setting months,” said Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, who now estimates there's a 92% chance that 2024 will beat 2023 as the warmest year on record.
Copernicus records go back to 1940, but other global measurements by the United States and United Kingdom governments go back even further, to 1880. Many scientists, taking those into consideration along with tree rings and ice cores, say last year's record highs were the hottest the planet has been in about 120,000 years. Now the first six months of 2024 have broken even those.
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.
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