A woman cools herself with a fan during a hot moment in London on June 26, 2024. June 2024 was the most updated June on the list, according to Europe’s Copernicus weather operator.
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A more than year-long stretch of record-breaking warm months on Earth continued into June, according to ECU weather operator Copernicus.
Scientists said there is hope that the planet will soon end the record-setting portion of the heat wave, but not the weather chaos that has come with it.
Copernicus said in an announcement early Monday that global temperatures in June were the 13th time warmest on record and the 12th time the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times. ,
“It’s a stark warning that we are getting closer to this very important threshold set by the Paris Agreement,” Nicolas Julien, a senior meteorologist at Copernicus, said in an interview. “Global temperatures continue to rise. It’s happening at a rapid pace.”

That 1.5 degree warming mark is impressive because that’s the limit of warming for almost all countries in the world according to the 2015 Paris climate assurance, even though Julien and other meteorologists have said it will be a long time until that limit is exceeded. Long duration of summer – up to 20 or 30 years.
“This is more than a statistical anomaly and it highlights the continuing changes in our climate,” Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a comment.
According to Copernicus, the world’s average temperature in June 2024 was 62 degrees Fahrenheit (16.66 degrees Celsius), 1.2 degrees (0.67 Celsius) above the past 30-year average. This missed the list for the preferred June, set a year earlier, by a quarter point (0.14 °C) and is the third warmest of any past recorded in the Copernican record, Which matches 1940, behind only last July and last August.
It’s not just that data is being lost 30 days per month, Julian said, but rather that they are being lost “by a very large margin over the last 13 months.”
“How bad is it?” requested Texas A&M College meteorologist Andrew Deshler, who was not part of the record. “For the rich and for now, it is an expensive inconvenience. For the poor it is suffering. In the future the amount of money you will have for inconvenience will only increase until the majority of people are no longer suffering.”

“Despite reaching the long-term 1.5-degree limit, we have seen the consequences of climate change, these extreme climate events” – meaning floods, storms, droughts and heat waves, Julian said.
According to Copernicus, the effects of the June heat wreaked havoc in Southeast Europe, Turkey, Eastern Canada, the Western United States and Mexico, Brazil, Northern Siberia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Western Antarctica. Recently, doctors had to treat thousands of heatstroke patients as the temperature in Pakistan reached 117 (47 degrees Celsius).
June was the 15th month in a row that the world’s oceans, covering more than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, have hit record heat, according to Copernicus data.
Julian and other meteorologists said most of this heat is from long-term warming from greenhouse gases emitted from the burning of coal, oil and petroleum gasoline. Human-caused climate change causes a large amount of trapped heat energy to quickly escape into the ocean and cause the oceans to warm and cool for longer periods of time.
El Niños and L.A. Herbal cycle of. Ninas, which warm and cool the central Pacific and drive global climate fluctuations, additionally play a role. El Niños tend to increase global temperature data and the stronger El Niño that formed in late June last year.
The other issue is that the air over the Atlantic distribution channels is cleaner due to maritime regulations, which release traditional air pollution debris such as sulfur, which causes a slight cooling, the scientists said. Rather, it hides much of the warming effect of greenhouse gases. Tianle Yuan, a climate scientist at NASA and the University of Maryland Baltimore campus who led a study on the effects of shipping, said that “the masking effect is diminished and it will temporarily increase the rate of warming” which is already Caused by greenhouse gases. Regulations.

Zeke Hausfather, command scientist at tech company Stripes and the Berkeley Earth climate-monitoring team, said in a post on “This is the hottest year since global surface temperature records began in the mid-1990s.”
Copernicus has not yet calculated its possibilities, Julian said. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management recently gave it a 50% probability.
Julian said the global daily average temperature in late June and early July, the month was still warm, just not as hot as last year.
“I would say it’s likely that July 2024 will be colder than July 2023 and that trend will end,” Julian said. “It’s still not certain. Things may change.”
Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist at Victoria College, said the data shows the Earth is headed for a three-degree Celsius rise in temperatures if emissions are not cut immediately. And he fears “people will soon forget” about the risks as the scorching months end and the winter snowfall approaches.
“Our world is in crisis,” said Andrea Dutton, a Wisconsin college meteorologist. “Perhaps you are feeling that crisis today – people who live in Beryl’s path are experiencing a storm that is being driven by an extremely warm ocean that has given rise to a new era of tropical storms that are increasingly “Could turn into deadly and costly major storms. Even if you’re not in trouble today, every temperature record we set means there’s a greater chance that climate change will bring trouble to your door or to your loved ones.”
Copernicus uses billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and climate stations around the world and reanalyzes them with forthcoming computer simulations. Many other countries’ science agencies – including NOAA and NASA – are also able to calculate weather per month, but they shoot for longer timescales, move ahead of events and do not give importance to computer simulations.
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