July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record – and by a wide margin.
"We are in uncharted territory and we can expect more records to fall as El Nino develops further and these impacts will extend into 2024," said Christopher Hewitt, WMO Director of Climate Services."This is worrying news for the planet."unusual early announcement that it was likely the hottest monthThe month was 2.7 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times.
Copernicus' records go back to 1940. The temperature record for July would be hotter than any month the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded and their records go back to 1850. But scientists say it was actually the hottest in a far longer time period. "It's a stunning record and makes it quite clearly the warmest month on Earth in 10,000 years," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in Germany, who wasn't part of the Copernicus team.
A tourist walks on a trail during a 27-day long heat wave, with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit, near Hole in the Rock, in Phoenix, Arizona, July 26, 2023, as seen in an image captured by a Flir One ProThermal camera, which shows a surface temperature of 117°, according to the National Weather Service.Rahmstorf cited studies that use tree rings and other proxies that show present times are the warmest since the beginning of the Holocene Epoch, about 10,000 years ago.
"We should not care about July because it's a record, but because it won't be a record for long," said Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto."It's an indicator of how much we have changed the climate. We are living in a very different world, one that our societies are not adapted to live in very well."
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