On July 22, the temperature reached record values. The Earth experienced the hottest day in the history of observations, which took place immediately after the previous record holder. The Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service (C3S) recorded that the planet’s average temperature reached 17.15 degrees Celsius on July 22, Science Alert reports.
That’s 0.06 degrees Celsius higher than July 21, which was recognized as the hottest day in history the day before.
“This is exactly what climate science has been showing us: what will happen if the world continues to burn coal, oil, and gas? And the heat will continue until we stop burning fossil fuels and achieve zero emissions,” said Joyce Kimutai, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.
It’s worth noting that Copernicus, which uses satellite data to update global air and sea temperatures in near real time, said the data was preliminary. However, the final figures may differ very slightly.
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It is expected that daily records may continue to be broken as summer reaches its peak in the Northern Hemisphere. At the same time, the global temperature should decline in the near future, although fluctuations are expected.
Copernicus experts note that climatologists are more concerned not with daily record-breaking but with a broader trend. Every month since June 2023 has been a record.
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The heat recorded on July 21 and 22 was only slightly above the July 2023 record, but was much hotter than the previous high of 16.8 degrees Celsius set in August 2016. And this high has been broken 57 times since June 2023.
Earlier, scientists said that the warming of the world’s oceans leads to the spread of harmful blooming algae in the polar regions of the planet. For example, in 2022, the Bering Strait suffered from a bloom of toxic organisms that led to shellfish poisoning.
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