March marks yet another record in global heat
Brussels, Belgium Reuters The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday. Each of the last 10 months ranked as the world’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous […]
Ocean temperature hit record high in February 2024, EU scientists say
London, UK Reuters Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. February’s average sea surface temperature surpassed the previous record of 20.98 degrees Celsius set in August, 2023, in a dataset that goes back […]
Climate change drives world to first 12-month spell over 1.5 degrees
Brussels, Belgium/London, UK Reuters The world just experienced its warmest January on record, marking the first 12-month period in which temperatures averaged more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Thursday. Already 2023 was the planet’s hottest year in global records going back to 1850, as […]
This year “virtually certain” to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say
Brussels, BelgiumReuters This year is “virtually certain” to be the warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last month was the world’s hottest October in that period. Last month smashed through the previous October temperature record, from 2019, by a massive margin, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) […]
“Global boiling”: Billions already suffer in heat over 1.5 degree limit
Many people live with temperatures above the Paris Agreement’s ceiling for global warming as land heats faster than the oceans. ALISTER DOYLE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
July, 2023, set to be world’s hottest month on record
Reuters July, 2023, is set to upend previous heat benchmarks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday after scientists said it was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record. The UN World Meteorological Organization and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service also said in a joint statement it was “extremely likely” July, […]
June was world’s hottest on record, EU scientists say
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Last month was the hottest June globally on record, with abnormally high temperatures recorded on both land and sea, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus […]
Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records – say climate experts
SingaporeReuters The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year’s annual climate talks in November, […]
World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns
Brussels, Belgium Reuters The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures […]
Europe experienced second-warmest winter on record
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Europe is emerging from its second-warmest winter on record, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, as climate change continues to intensify. The average temperature in Europe from December to February was 1.4 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average for the Boreal winter season, according to data published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate […]