According to Reuters, July this year was recognized as one of the hottest in the world since the compilation of statistics, second only to these months in 2019 and 2016.
According to European scientists, in July, unusually high temperatures were recorded around the world – from Finland to the United States.
This is another proof of the long-term trend towards warming – the previous seven years were the warmest in the world, as greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate on our planet.
“When we look at global temperatures, we see big fluctuations from year to year, even from month to month, in most parts of the world,” Freya Wamborg, a senior fellow at the European Copernicus program, told Reuters.
Last month, along with July 2020, ranked third in the world for high temperatures, as statistics were conducted after July 2019 and July 2016.
This is the second hot figure in Europe since July 2010.
The Copernicus climate change program contains information from the middle of the last century, but it is compared with other databases dating back to the mid-19th century.
Many areas have been hit by extreme weather events last month – according to a scientific consensus that global warming is making tides faster and stronger, and higher temperatures are intensifying torrential rains on the planet.
The record heat in the United States and Canada, which began in June, killed hundreds of people and led to fires. In China, Belgium and Germany, heavy rains caused huge floods.
The highest daily maximum temperatures were recorded in the tropical north of Australia last month.
According to the Copernicus program, temperatures were above normal “almost everywhere” in North Africa.
In some regions it was slightly cooler than average, such as Germany and some parts of Russia.
Ralph Toome of the Grantham Climate Institute at Imperial College London said the recent record heat was not surprising given the long-term nature of the rise in temperature.