Main Topic: The month of July is on track to become the hottest ever recorded, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events attributed to climate change.
Key Points:
1. The first three weeks of July have been exceptionally warm, making it highly likely that this month will break temperature records.
2. Human-caused emissions are identified as the main driver of rising temperatures and climate change.
3. Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves in the Southwest U.S., southern Europe, and China, are becoming more frequent and intense due to global warming.
Main Topic: Record-breaking global temperatures in July 2023 and the implications for climate change.
Key Points:
1. July 2023 was the warmest July on record, surpassing the previous record by more than one-third of a degree Fahrenheit.
2. It is very likely that July 2023 was the warmest month ever recorded since at least 1850.
3. The warming trend is driven by long-term, human-caused global warming and amplified by the El Niño climate pattern, with significant consequences for sea-level rise, coastal flooding, and impacts on marine ecosystems.
The world experienced the hottest summer on record, with July and August temperatures approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
A heatwave in South America, fueled by the developing El Niño and unusually warm oceans, is bringing record-breaking temperatures that are 30 to 40 degrees above normal, with daily maximum temperatures of 110 to 120 degrees anticipated.
According to a report by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, this year is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, with September 2023 being the warmest September on record, and the global mean temperature for January-September 2023 being 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than the average.