The historic day comes on the heels of 13 straight months of unprecedented temperatures and the hottest year scientists have ever seen.
A man tries to sell flowers to people enjoying the views of the full moon rising near the Acropolis amid heat wave in Athens on Sunday. The results from the Copernicus Climate Change Service show the planet’s average temperature on July 21 was 17.09 degrees Celsius — breaking a record set only“We are in truly uncharted territory,” Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. “And as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see records being broken in future months and years.
Though Sunday was only slightly warmer than the world’s previous hottest day, Copernicus researchers noted, it was extraordinarily hotter than anything that came before. Before July 2023, Earth’s daily average temperature was 16.8 degrees Celsius — a record set in August 2016. But in the past year, the global has exceeded that old record on 57 days.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,” Buontempo said. Scientists have only been tracking global temperatures for the past few centuries. Yet there is good reason to believe that Sunday was the hottest day on Earth since the start of the last Ice Age, ice cores, lake sediments and other ancient material to understand past environments — suggests that recent heat would have been all but impossible over the last stretch of geologic time.The unrelenting heat has scientists increasingly convinced that this year could prove even hotter than last.
“It is troubling but not surprising that we are hitting record temperatures this year,” Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at the nonprofit Climate Central, wrote in an email. “We continue to addoff-the-grid homes from trashFox pundits rehash attacks on ‘radical and incompetent’ Kamala Harris
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