Average temperatures have not been this high since long before humans developed agriculture.
- Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service.published by Copernicus on Wednesday showed that Monday broke the previous day’s record by 0.06 degrees Celsius .
The temperature rise in recent decades is in line with what climate scientists projected would happen if humans kept burning fossil fuels at an increasing rate. While 2024 has been extremely warm, what kicked this week into new territory was a warmer-than-usual Antarctic winter, according to Copernicus. The same thing happened on the southern continent last year when the record was set in early July.
Without human-caused climate change, scientists say that extreme temperature records would not be broken nearly as frequently as is happening in recent years.
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