FALCON POWERS – The climate change crisis plaguing the world is intensifying, worsening day by day at an accelerating rate, as heat continues to scorch the globe, increasing the likelihood of unprecedented natural and environmental disasters that pose a grave threat to humanity.
Official figures released by European monitoring centers show that last June was the hottest June ever recorded in world history.
The British Daily Mail newspaper, in a report reviewed by Al-Arabiya.net, quoted European monitoring centers confirming that temperature readings reached record-breaking levels last month, making it “the hottest June” on record, though it ranks 13th overall in terms of absolute record highs.
According to scientists in the European Union’s climate change program, globally, June 2023 was the hottest June ever recorded.
Last month was not only the hottest so far in 2024, but also the 13th consecutive month to break the record for high temperatures overall.
Experts point to greenhouse gas emissions as the cause and warn of an ongoing “climate catastrophe”.
According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the global average temperature for June this year was 61.98°F (16.66°C). This is 0.25°F (0.14°C) higher than the previous warmest June in 2023.
Worryingly, this figure is also 1.2°F (0.67°C) warmer than the global average for June in the 1991-2020 period.
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said that “June represents the 13th consecutive month in which global temperatures have set new records, and the 12th consecutive month above 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial period”.
He added: “This is more than just a statistical oddity, as it highlights a major and ongoing shift in our climate. Even if this specific sequence of extremes were to come to an end at some point, it is inevitable that we will see new records broken as global warming continues.” He continued: “This is unavoidable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and oceans.”
The C3S, which is managed by the European Commission, examines temperature readings based on a diverse set of platforms and tools, ranging from weather stations to weather balloons and satellites.
The service’s readings indicate the annual global average air temperature for the entire planet, which is significantly lower than a single “hot” temperature reading.
Furthermore, the global average temperature over the past 12 months (from July 2023 to June 2024) has now become the highest on record.
The C3S said the past 12 months were 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (0.76 degrees Celsius) above the 1991-2020 average and 2.95 degrees Fahrenheit (1.64 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial average during the period between 1850 and 1900.
