The planet saw its hottest day on record

Angela Fritz, CNN

(CNN) — Sunday was nan hottest time successful recorded history, according to preliminary information from a ambiance search agency monitoring temperatures since nan mid-1900s.

It’s nan 2nd consecutive twelvemonth mean world temperatures person collapsed done shocking ambiance records and will not beryllium nan last, arsenic planet-warming fossil substance contamination drives temperatures to shocking caller highs.

July 21 clocked successful astatine 17.09 degrees Celsius, aliases 62.76 Fahrenheit, and was nan hottest time connected Earth since astatine slightest 1940, according to nan preliminary information from nan European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Despite being based connected information from nan mid-20th century, nan somesthesia records correspond nan warmest play nan satellite has seen successful astatine slightest 100,000 years, scientists person recovered from galore millennia of ambiance information extracted from crystal cores and coral reefs.

Global ambiance records are typically surgery by mini fractions of a degree, arsenic was nan lawsuit pinch this one: Sunday’s somesthesia was conscionable 0.01 degrees Celsius supra 2023’s record.

What’s jarring is nan warmest world temperatures were importantly cooler by astir 0.3 degrees earlier 2023.

“We are now successful genuinely uncharted territory and arsenic nan ambiance keeps warming, we are bound to spot caller records being surgery successful early months and years,” said Carlo Buontempo, head of Copernicus.

These caller records are “truly straggering,” Buontempo said. “We are now successful genuinely uncharted territory and arsenic nan ambiance keeps warming, we are bound to spot caller records being surgery successful early months and years.”

Global temperatures up and down based connected earthy factors: seasons, large-scale ambiance patterns and star activity — and connected unnatural factors: nan contamination from quality activity, including nan burning of fossil fuels, which is chiefly driving nan planet’s somesthesia steadily upward.

Scientists pegged past year’s grounds to nan coincidence of El Niño, a earthy ambiance shape successful nan Pacific water pinch a warming effect, and fossil substance pollution, which is trapping power successful nan Earth’s atmosphere.

This year’s grounds comes arsenic El Niño is disappearing and transitioning to its cool La Niña phase, underscoring nan important power of nan human-caused ambiance crisis.

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