The suspense among the specialists was low, since on the 27th of Julyeven before the end of the month, scientists had considered it “extremely likely” that July 2023 was the warmest month on record.
The average of the month July of 2019, the previous record, was 16.63º C.
It hasn’t been this hot in 120,000 years.
Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the European Copernicus Service on Climate Change
In the recent words of the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, humanity has left the era of global warming to enter that of “global boiling”.
The oceans are also victims of this worrying phenomenon: the temperatures registered at the sea surface have been abnormally high since April and the levels registered in July they are unprecedented.
The absolute record was broken on July 30, with 20.96 ° C. Throughout the month, the sea surface temperature was 0.51°C above the average (1991-2020).
Extreme phenomena in the world
“We have just witnessed new records for both global air and surface ocean temperatures in July. These records have dire consequences for populations and the planet, which are exposed to more extreme, frequent and intense phenomena.“Samantha Burgess explained.
Signs of global warming caused by human activities – starting with the use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) – have appeared simultaneously all over the world.
Greece suffered great fires, like Canada, which on the other hand was the victim of terrible floods.
Successive heat waves in southern Europe, northern Africa, the southern United States and parts of China have been crushing.