-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email For the 13th consecutive month, Earth's average monthly temperature has broken all previous records, continuing a streak that began in June 2023. Significantly, the European climate service Copernicus added that that the world has been 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.
7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial levels for more than a year, pushing the planet up against the threshold established by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. "We see increases in deadly heat waves and droughts, but also an increased experience of 'global weirding' — more extreme weather events producing conditions that are entirely new for communities." "It's a stark warning that we are getting closer to this very important limit set by the Paris Agreement," Copernicus senior climate scientist Nicolas Julien told NPR .
"The global temperature continues to increase. It has at a rapid pace." Yet although climate activists and political leaders alike are urging the public to pay attention to these record-breaking temperatures , experts agree that the most important details are not the statistics: It is the thousands of innocent people — from Saudi Arabia and India to Maricopa County in Arizona — who are dying from heat-related deaths because of global heating.
Related Climate change will raise sea levels, cause apocalyptic floods and displace almost a billion people "Along with this warming, we see increases in deadly heat waves and droughts, but also an increased ex.
