{"id":17583,"date":"2023-09-07T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17583"},"modified":"2023-09-07T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:10:22","slug":"this-summer-broke-the-world-record-for-the-highest-temperature-officially-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17583","title":{"rendered":"This summer broke the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GENEVA (AP) \u2014 Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment, it was also the second hottest month measured, behind only\u00a0July 2023, WMO and the European climate service Copernicus announced Wednesday.
August was about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial averages. That is the threshold that the world is trying not to pass, though scientists are more concerned about rises in temperatures over decades, not merely a blip over a month\u2019s time.
The\u00a0world\u2019s oceans\u00a0\u2014 more than 70% of the Earth\u2019s surface \u2014 were the hottest ever recorded, nearly 21 C (69.8 F), and have set high temperature marks for three consecutive months, the WMO and Copernicus said.
\u201cThe dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,\u201d United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. \u201cClimate breakdown has begun.\u201d
So far, 2023 is the second hottest year on record, behind 2016, according to Copernicus.
Scientists blame ever warming\u00a0human-caused climate change\u00a0from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas with an extra push from a\u00a0natural El Nino, which is a temporary warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide. Usually an El Nino, which started earlier this year, adds extra heat to global temperatures but more so in its second year.
Climatologist Andrew Weaver said the numbers announced by WMO and Copernicus come as no surprise, bemoaning how governments have not appeared to take the issue of global warming seriously enough. He expressed concern that the public will just forget the issue when temperatures fall again.
\u201cIt\u2019s time for global leaders to start telling the truth,\u201d said Weaver, a professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. \u201cWe will not limit warming to 1.5 C; we will not limit warming to 2.0 C. It\u2019s all hands on deck now to prevent 3.0 C global warming \u2014 a level of warming that will wreak havoc worldwide.\u201d
Copernicus, a division of the European Union\u2019s space program, has records going back to 1940, but in the United Kingdom and the United States, global records go back to the mid 1800s and those weather and science agencies are expected to soon report that the summer was a record-breaker.
\u201cWhat we are observing, not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,\u201d Copernicus Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.
Scientists have used tree rings, ice cores and other proxies to estimate that temperatures are now warmer than they\u00a0have been in about 120,000 years.\u00a0The world has been warmer before, but that was prior to human civilization, seas were much higher and the poles were not icy.
So far, daily September temperatures are higher than what has been recorded before for this time of year, according to the\u00a0University of Maine\u2019s Climate Reanalyzer.
While the world\u2019s air and oceans were setting records for heat, Antarctica continued to set records for low amounts of sea ice, the WMO said.
\u201cWhat we are observing, not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,\u201d Copernicus Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.
Scientists have used tree rings, ice cores and other proxies to estimate that temperatures are now warmer than they\u00a0have been in about 120,000 years.\u00a0The world has been warmer before, but that was prior to human civilization, seas were much higher and the poles were not icy.
So far, daily September temperatures are higher than what has been recorded before for this time of year, according to the\u00a0University of Maine\u2019s Climate Reanalyzer.
While the world\u2019s air and oceans were setting records for heat, Antarctica continued to set records for low amounts of sea ice, the WMO said.
\u201cIf heat waves increase as a result of El Nino, we may probably expect a further degradation in air quality as a whole,\u201d he said.
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