«Summer 2023 will be the hottest ever», Copernicus data on the temperature boom:«All records broken»

«The scientific evidence is overwhelming:we will continue to see new climate records and more intense and frequent extreme weather events,” says Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Samantha Burgess

The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded so far globally.To reiterate it are the latest data of Copernicus, the European Union's weather service, according to which the average temperature between June and August was 16.77 degrees centigrade, 0.66 degrees above average.August 2023 was the hottest month globally and warmer than all other months except July 2023.In August temperatures were about 1.5 degrees higher than the pre-industrial average between 1850 and 1900.The Copernicus findings then underline how the global average surface air temperature of 16.82 degrees in August was 0.71 degrees warmer than the average for the period between 1991 and 2020 for the same month, and warmer than 0.31 degrees of the previous warmest August of 2016.

Trend also confirmed in global average sea surface temperatures, which every day from 31 July to 31 August 2023 exceeded the previous record set in March 2016.The entire month of August recorded the highest temperature on the Merino waters compared to all the other months, with 20.98 degrees, well above the average for the month of August, with an anomaly of 0.55 degrees.“With the hottest August, followed by the hottest months of July and June, global temperature records continue to break in 2023, leading to the 2023 boreal summer being the warmest recorded in our data going back to 1940,” he says. Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Samantha Burgess – 2023 is currently the second warmest year, just 0.01ºC behind 2016, when there are still four months left until the end of the year.Meanwhile, the global ocean recorded both the warmest daily surface temperature on record and the warmest month on record in August.If there could still be doubts about the effects of climate change, Burgess insists:«The scientific evidence is overwhelming:We will continue to see new climate records and more intense and frequent extreme weather events that will impact society and ecosystems until we stop emitting greenhouse gases."