2024-09-06 09:00:08
Climate Change
Weather

Record Summer Temperatures Set World on Course for Hottest Year Ever

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Summer 2024 marked the hottest on record globally, with soaring temperatures highlighting the escalating climate crisis. The Copernicus Climate Change Service's data points towards 2024 potentially becoming the hottest year recorded.

Despite some regions experiencing cooler weather in August, the majority faced extreme heat, further exacerbated by climate change. The world is failing emission reduction targets, with current warming surpassing pre-industrial levels by 1.2C and breaching the critical 1.5C threshold.

Severe weather events like droughts in Sicily and Sardinia, Typhoon Gaemi hitting various countries, and China facing its hottest August in over sixty years underscore the urgent need for emissions cuts to combat escalating climate disasters.

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Environment
EU climate service confirms record summer heat in 2024 with the hottest June, August, and boreal summer globally. Greenhouse gas emissions fuel climate disasters, with flooding in Sudan, drought in Italy, and Typhoon Gaemi. Human-induced climate change and El Nino contribute to record high temperatures, potentially surpassing 2023.
Deutsche Welle
6. September 2024 um 06:11

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Environment
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zeit
6. September 2024 um 05:17

Copernicus: European Climate Service records hottest summer worldwide

Environment
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Al Jazeera
6. September 2024 um 07:29

Record summer temperatures set world on course for hottest year ever

Environment
Politics
The Copernicus Climate Change Service reports record-breaking summer temperatures globally, likely making 2024 the hottest year on record. Extreme weather has been intensified by climate change, except in regions like Alaska, the eastern US, parts of South America, Pakistan, and the Sahel desert zone in northern Africa, which had lower-than-average temperatures in August. Governments have emissions reduction targets, but the world is not on track, with current warming around 1.2C above pre-ind..
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