O The year 2024 now has a 77% chance of being the hottest on record, NOAA said in its monthly report.
Last week, the European agency Copernicus, which uses a different data set, estimated that July 2024 had been slightly less warm than July 2023.
But both agencies agree on the alarming nature of the situation, with each month recording exceptional monthly temperatures for about a year.
The year 2024 will definitely be among the five warmest years, according to NOAA, whose data goes back 175 years.
In July, the global temperature was 1.21°C above the 20th century average (15.8°C), according to the North American agency.
The period was marked in particular by a series of heat waves in Mediterranean countries and the Gulf countries, he stressed.
Africa, Europe and Asia recorded their hottest July on record, while it was the second hottest in North America.
The oceans recorded the second warmest July on record, according to NOAA — the same result as Copernicus in this record — putting an end to 15 months of consecutive monthly sea temperature records.
But this slight improvement could have been more significant given the end of the El Niño climate phenomenon.
The year 2023 had already been the hottest on record.
“The devastating effects of climate change began long before 2023 and will continue until global greenhouse gas emissions reach carbon neutrality,” Samantha Burgess, deputy head of Copernicus’ climate change department (C3S), said last week.
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