On average, it was 17 degrees globally. This is not a milestone to celebrate, but a death sentence, says a US researcher.
According to American researchers, Monday, July 3, was the world’s hottest day on record. The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius, the US National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reported on Tuesday. This surpassed the previous record set in August 2016 at 16.92 degrees Celsius.
“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said researcher Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, who specializes in climate change and the environment. “It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”
Nearly 50 degrees in North Africa
In recent weeks, the southern United States has experienced an intense heat wave. A heat wave continued in China, with temperatures reaching over 35 degrees. North Africa recorded temperatures close to 50 degrees. Thermometers also rose extraordinarily high in Antarctica: at the Ukrainian polar station Vernadsky, the June temperature record was recently broken at 8.7 degrees. Scientists blamed climate change in conjunction with an emerging El Niño phenomenon for the development. (APA/Portal)