Europe began keeping global temperature records from the mid-1800s. June 2024 was the warmest June on record since then.
The European Union’s (EU) global climate monitoring and research organization European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed this information in their monthly bulletin on Monday. According to the bulletin, the global average temperature in June 2024 was 1.64 degrees Celsius higher than the average June temperature from 1850 to 1900, i.e. the pre-industrial and early industrial period.
Jack Housefather, an official at Berkeley Earth, a climate research organization under C3S, told Reuters in this regard, “Until now, June 2023 was considered to be the warmest June in history. But June 2024 has broken that record.
Due to the record heat, more natural disasters such as long heat wave, drought, excessive rainfall, flood, cyclone etc. have occurred in different countries of the world in June 2024 compared to the June months of previous years. More than 1 thousand people lost their lives in these disasters.
A heatwave swept over India’s capital, New Delhi, for almost the entire month of June. Lack of rain and drought have dried up fresh water sources in several cities in Mexico.
Frederic Otto, a climate expert at the Grantham Institute, a research organization under the Imperial College of London, told Reuters in this regard, “Now the El Niño weather pattern is going on around the world. Overheating during summer is normal in such weather conditions; But the temperature the world saw last June is not the El Nino weather pattern, but the excessive use of fossil fuels and emissions of greenhouse gases.
“I think 2024 is going to be the hottest year in the history of the world very soon because it is not possible to reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions overnight,” Frederick told Reuters.
