The Earth has been setting heat records for more than a year.And we don't have to get used to it

In the month of June, according to the European climate service Copernicus, the average global temperature recorded yet another record.

È more than a year that, month after month, the average global temperature is setting records.This is catastrophic news for the climate of the Earth, which however repetitiveness risks going unnoticed.Woe, however, to getting used to this recurring current situation, since these are increasingly disturbing alarm bells, which should push all of us – governments, citizens, businesses, associations – to act.The latest news, in chronological order, was released by the European climate monitoring service Copernicus, and concerns the month of June this year.

The anomalous warming of the oceans is also having an impact

There global average temperature, in the thirty days ending a week ago, it had never been so high in the same period, since the data is recorded regularly.Even more than June 2023, which in turn had set an all-time record.

“It's about the thirteenth consecutive month of highs globally, and the twelfth in a row with a temperature of over 1.5 degrees centigrade compared to pre-industrial levels", the director of Copernicus specified, Carlo Buontempo.Over the last year, between July 2023 and June 2024, the average was 1.64 degrees more than when the world had not yet begun to burn fossil fuels (i.e. before the mid-nineteenth century).

Numerous episodes of extreme heat on Earth in recent weeks

Although local data is not necessarily conclusive in this sense, it must be said that over the last few weeks the numbers have multiplied chronicles of exceptional heat waves in numerous areas of the world.From the Mexico at the China, passing through Saudi Arabia and the California, there were many extreme episodes, fueled according to Copernicus by unprecedented warming of the oceans, which absorb most of the excess heat in the Earth's atmosphere.

More than 1,300 people died while they went on a pilgrimage in Mecca due to temperatures rising to levels unbearable for humans:until 51.8 degrees centigrade.In Greece, in mid-June temperatures reached 44 degrees centigrade, and values ​​above 40 degrees were reported in numerous locations in China, including the capital Beijing.On the contrary (demonstrating that we should never confuse meteorological data and climate) in much of Western Europe in June temperatures were particularly cool for the season.