BRUSSELS: The world is waking up to the northern hemisphere’s warmest summer on record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.
The boreal summer from June to August this year surpassed last summer to become the warmest in the world, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin.
The exceptional warmth increases the likelihood that 2024 will surpass 2023 as the warmest on record.
“During the last three months of 2024, the globe experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the warmest boreal summer on record,” said C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess.
Unless the country urgently cuts its global-warming emissions, extreme weather “will only get more intense,” she said. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change.
The changed climate of the planet fueled disasters even this summer. In Sudan, flooding caused by heavy rains last month affected more than 300,000 people and brought cholera to the war-torn country.
