Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havoc

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European climate surveillance service said Thursday that a series of record -breaking temperatures worldwide ended July 3rd, but many regions were destroyed due to extreme weather by global warming.

Heavy rains flooded Pakistan and northern China. Canada, Scotland, and Greece struggled to control forest fires due to the drought. And many countries in Asia and Scandinavia recorded an average new height for this month.

“Two years after the hottest July of July, the recent series of global temperature records has ended,” said Carlo Bontampo, director of the European Union’s Coopernax climate change service.

“But that does not mean that the climate change has stopped,” he said. “We keep witnessing the effects of a warming world.”

A misleading dip

Like June, July showed a slight dip compared to the last two years, with an average of 1.25 degrees Celsius more than an average industrial (1850-1900) period.

2023 and 2024 warmed the benchmark more than 1.5 ° C, which has been set a target of the Paris Agreement in 2015 to prevent global temperature rise at a relatively safe level.

This fraud has been enough to make storms, heatwaves and other extreme weather events much more deadly and destructive.

“We witnessed the effects of a hot world in events such as extreme heatwaves and devastating floods in July,” said Bontampo.

Last month, the Gulf, Iraq and – for the first time – Turkey’s temperature exceeded 50 ° C, while hundreds of people were killed in China and Pakistan.

In Spain, more than a thousand fatalities were attributed to the heat in July by a government institute, of which half of the same period was in 2024.

The main source of CO2 driving temperature is famous: burning oil, coal and gas to generate energy.

“Unless we stabilize greenhouse gas concentration in the environment, we should not only expect new temperature records but also increase the effects,” said Bontampo.

Regional contradictions

The global average temperature is calculated using billions of satellites and weather readings, both in the earth and the sea, and the data used by coperax extends to 1940.

Even if July was lighter in some places compared to previous years, 11 countries tested their hottest July in at least half a century, including China, Japan, North Korea, Tajikistan, Bhutan, Brunei and Malaysia.

In Europe, Nordic countries saw the unprecedented wire of a hot day, which includes more than 20 days in Finland.

According to the AFP analysis of the European Drought Observatory (EDO) data, in the first three weeks of July, more than half of the lands, as well as more than half of the land, experienced the worst drought conditions in the first three weeks of July.

On the contrary, the temperature in North and South America, India and parts of Australia and Africa, as well as Antarctica, was lower than normal.

The oceans are still hot

Last month, the third highest in the sea level temperature record was July.

However, locally, several records of the sea were broken for July: in the Norway Sea, in parts of the North Sea, west of the northern Atlantic of France and Britain.

The Arctic Sea snow range was less than 10 % of the average, which was the second lowest for July in 47 years satellite observations, which is practically associated with the reading of 2012 and 2021.

Reducing sea ice is not a concern because it increases the surface of the sea, but because it replaces snow and ice that shows almost all the energy of the sun with a deep blue sea in space, which absorbs it.

Sea absorbs 90 % of additional heat generated from global warming.

In Antarctica, the sea snow limit is the third lowest in the record for this month.

‘To break the record’

“Human activities are causing the world to heat the world at an extraordinary rate,” said Pierce Force, director of the Pressali Center for Cabinet Future at the University of Leeds.

He explained that in the upper part of human-powered warming, natural phenomena make changes year-to-year changes, such as a change in air samples in the L-Nano-Geni Pacific-and volcanic activity that has been aimed at reaching global temperatures in the past two years.

“These variations are now decreasing, leaving us behind the record -breaking temperatures,” said Forster.

“But the recovery is just temporary,” he added. “We can expect the highest records to be broken again in the near future.”