INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BRUSSELS: Now that July's sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organisation made it official: July 2023 was Earth's
hottest month on record by a wide margin.July's global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third
of a degree Celsius (six tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service, a
division of the European Union's space programme, announced Tuesday.Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth
and intense extreme events," said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.There have been deadly heat waves in the Southwestern United
States and Mexico, Europe and Asia
Scientific quick studies put the blame on human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.Days in July have been
hotter than previously recorded from July 2 on
It's been so extra warm that Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organisation made the unusual early announcement that it was likely the
hottest month days before it ended
Tuesday's calculations made it official.The month was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times
1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times.Last month was so hot, it was .7 degrees Celsius (1.3 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the
average July from 1991 to 2020, Copernicus said.The worlds oceans were half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the
previous 30 years and the North Atlantic was 1.05 degrees Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than average
Antarctica set record lows for sea ice, 15 per cent below average for this time of year.Copernicus' records go back to 1940
That temperature would be hotter than any month the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded and their records go
He wasn't part of the Copernicus team.Rahmstorf cited studies that use tree rings and other proxies that show present times are the warmest
since the beginning of the Holocene Epoch, about 10,000 years ago
And before the Holocene started there was an ice age, so it would be logical to even say this is the warmest record for 120,000 years, he
climate scientist Friederike Otto
Declares after Hottest July: "Global warming era over; global boiling era begins"
