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July ends a 13-month streak of record-breaking temperatures

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STORY: July 2024 was the second-hottest July on record-

-which ends a 13 month streak of record-breaking high temperatures.

Thats according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service on Wednesday.

The month was 2.7°F above the pre-industrial average – still high, but also short of July in 2023.

Beginning June last year, the streak saw each month become the hottest on record since 1940.

Copernicus links the high temperatures mainly to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

Julien Nicholas is a scientist with the service, and pointed out that the recent streak went beyond the El Nino phenomenon.

“I think that’s really something to keep in mind, it was the streak of global temperature records was in part related to development of the El Nino event in the Pacific that’s come to an end, but there is also other parts of the world that are still very warm, much warmer than average. And again, I think the consequences of climate change will continue to be felt even beyond the end of the recent streaks of global temperature records, so that’s really the context that we need to keep in mind.”

Above-average temperatures were seen around the globe:

in southern and eastern Europe, the western U.S., western Canada,

as well as Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and eastern Antarctica.

Ocean surface temperatures also stayed unusually high in many areas.

“What is still surprising at this time, as we speak in early August, is the very record, near record levels of sea surface temperatures, global sea surface temperature, we are slightly below what we were a year ago.”



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