New Delhi: The day between July 4 and Monday, July 3, according to data from the American National Centres for Environmental Prediction, was the hottest ever seen on Earth, a new agency, Reuters, reported. The average global temperature increased to 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking the previous record of 16.92 degrees Celsius (62.46 degrees Fahrenheit) established in August 2016. This occurred when heatwaves burned the globe.
Southern US Suffering
The southern US has been suffering under an intense heat dome in recent weeks. In China, an enduring heatwave continued, with temperatures above 35 C (95 F). North Africa has seen temperatures near 50 C (122 F), the report said.
And even Antarctica, which is currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent’s Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7 C (47.6 F), the new report of the agency said.
Not a Milestone Worth Celebrating
“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain’s Imperial College London.
“It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”
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Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, was to blame.
“Unfortunately, it promises to only be the first in a series of new records set this year as increasing emissions of and greenhouse gases coupled with a growing El Nino event push temperatures to new highs,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, in a statement, the new agency said.
