2023 could be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during this past summer in the Northern Hemisphere were all record highs.
This is new information released by the European Union (EU) Climate Change Service (C3S) on September 6, 2023.
According to a new report by C3S, the average global temperature in June, July and August 2023 is 16.77 degrees Celsius, surpassing the previous record of 16.48 degrees Celsius recorded in 2019.
The past three months have been the warmest in nearly 120,000 years, or almost the entire history of human existence.
August 2023 was also the hottest August on record and was warmer than all previous months except July 2023.
"Climate breakdown has already begun... The climate is deteriorating faster than we can cope," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on the same day.
Also on September 6, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that more frequent and intense heat waves are exacerbating air pollution, reducing human life expectancy and harming other life forms.
“Heatwaves degrade air quality, directly affecting human health, ecosystems, agriculture and indeed our daily lives,” WMO Director-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
Record high global sea surface temperatures are thought to have been a major contributor to summer heatwaves, with heatwaves hitting the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
“If you look at the extra heat on the ocean surface, it’s likely that 2023 will be the hottest year on record,” said Burgess of C3S. If the Northern Hemisphere had a “normal” winter, she said, “we could almost say that 2023 would be the hottest year humanity has ever experienced.”
MH (reported by Thanh Nien, VNA)
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