The World Meteorological Organization says this July could possibly go down as the hottest month in recorded history. The previous record was set in July 2016 as a result of the occurrence of an El Niño phenomenon.
“July has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, national, and global level,” says WMO Chief Petteri Taalas.
July 2019 has at least equaled, if not broken, the record for the hottest month since data collection began.
— WMO | OMM (@WMO) August 1, 2019
It’s a month marked by a #heatwave that saw #climate history rewritten.
🌡📈☀️🌍🌎🌏
READ MORE ▶️https://t.co/8CON53iUE7 pic.twitter.com/uIIKo41opK
The month’s heatwave came after June’s also record-breaking heatwave. In fact, all months in 2019 have been the warmest for their time of year.
These heatwaves have caused and will continue to cause, significant damage to environments around the world as ice continues to melt in places like Greenland and wildfires start to increase.
“This is not science fiction. It is the reality of climate change. It is happening now and it will worsen in the future without urgent climate action,” said Taalas.
Get NationofChange in your inbox
Independent reporting every weekday. No paywall, no advertisers, no corporate owner. Free, and you can unsubscribe whenever you like.
Subscribe freeYour gift is being matched, up to $2,000.
A member of the NationofChange board is matching every contribution to our summer drive, dollar for dollar, until the $2,000 is used up or the drive ends on 24 August. We take no advertising money and answer to no corporate owner. The article you just read was paid for by readers, and right now what they give counts twice.
COMMENTS