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June broke global temperature records for the 13th month in a row. Earth exceeds the 1.5C limit for a year!

2024-07-08 11:04:49Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

June broke global temperature records for the 13th month in a row. Earth exceeds

June 2024 was the warmest June on record, marking the 13th consecutive month of record temperatures, according to the European climate service Copernicus. It also marked the 12th consecutive month that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. "It's a stark warning that we are approaching this very important limit set by the Paris Agreement," Copernicus senior climate scientist Nicolas Julien said in an interview. "The global temperature continues to rise. It's fast-paced."

That 1.5C temperature mark is important because it's the warming limit agreed to by almost all countries in the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord, although Julien and other meteorologists have said the threshold will not be crossed. until there is a long duration of prolonged heat up to 20 or 30 years. "This is more than a statistical quirk and highlights an ongoing change in our climate," Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement.

Earth's more than year-long streak of record heat may soon end, but not the climate chaos that has come with it, scientists said. The global average for June 2024 was 16.66 degrees Celsius, which is 0.67 C above the 30-year average for the month, according to Copernicus. It broke the record for the hottest June, set a year ago, by 0.14 degrees Celsius and is the third warmest of any month in Copernicus records going back to 1940, behind only July and August passed.

It's not that records are being broken every month, but they are "being broken by very significant margins over the last 13 months," Julien said. "How bad is this?" asked Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler, who was not part of the report. "For the rich and at the moment, it's an expensive concern. For the poor it is suffering. In the future, the amount of wealth you have to have just to worry about will increase until most people suffer.”

What impact do high temperatures have on global weather?

Even without reaching the long-term 1.5 degree threshold, "we've seen the consequences of climate change, these extreme climate events," Julien said — meaning worsening floods, storms, droughts and heat waves. June's heat hit southeast Europe, Turkey, eastern Canada, the western United States and Mexico, Brazil, northern Siberia, the Middle East, northern Africa and western Antarctica, according to Copernicus. Doctors had to treat thousands of heat stroke victims in Pakistan last month after temperatures reached 47 degrees Celsius.

June was also the 15th consecutive month that the world's oceans, more than two-thirds of the Earth's surface, have broken heat records, according to Copernicus data. Most of that heat comes from long-term warming from greenhouse gases emitted by burning coal, oil and natural gas, Julien and other meteorologists said. An overwhelming amount of heat energy trapped by human-caused climate change goes directly into the ocean, and those oceans take longer to warm and cool.


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