As per the announcement made on Monday by the EU’s climate change monitoring service, June of this year was the hottest on record. This remarkable trend of high temperatures suggests that 2024 may be the world’s hottest year ever recorded, according to some scientists.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union stated in a monthly newsletter that every month since June 2023—13 months in a row—has ranked as the planet’s hottest since records began, in comparison with the equivalent month in previous years.
The El Nino natural weather phenomena and human-caused climate change have both driven temperatures to record highs in the year thus far, and according to the most recent data, 2024 may surpass 2023 as the warmest year since records began.
Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, stated, “I now estimate that there is approximately 95% chance that 2024 beats 2023 to be the warmest year since global surface temperature records began in the mid-1800s.”
By 2024, the world has already seen catastrophic effects due to the altered climate.
Over a thousand people lost their lives last month during the Haj during the extreme heat. In New Dehli, which had an exceptionally prolonged heatwave, as well as among Greek tourists, heat deaths were reported.
According to Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, there is a “high chance” that 2024 will be the warmest year ever recorded.
