{"id":23283,"date":"2024-09-07T06:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T06:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23283"},"modified":"2024-09-07T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T06:34:54","slug":"2024-summer-was-the-hottest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/2024-summer-was-the-hottest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 summer was the hottest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union&#8217;s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content newsdeck-article\">\n<div class=\"mb20\">\n<div class=\"font-knowledge regular line-height-1-5 text-story color-black f6 pt16 pb20 border-bottom border-gray-22 story-copy\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa-component=\"item-story\">\n<p>The boreal summer of June to August this year blew past last summer to become the world\u2019s warmest, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The exceptional heat increases the likelihood that 2024 will outrank 2023 as the\u00a0planet\u2019s warmest on record, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record,\u201d said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess.<\/p>\n<p>Unless countries urgently reduce their planet-heating emissions, extreme weather \u201cwill only become more intense\u201d, she said. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The planet\u2019s changed climate continued to fuel disasters this summer. In Sudan, flooding from\u00a0heavy rains\u00a0last month affected more than 300,000 people and brought cholera to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, scientists confirmed climate change is driving a\u00a0severe ongoing drought\u00a0on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and it intensified\u00a0Typhoon Gaemi, which tore through the Philippines, Taiwan and China in July, leaving more than 100 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Human-caused climate change and the El Nino natural weather phenomenon, which warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, both pushed temperatures to record highs earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copernicus said below-average temperatures in the equatorial Pacific last month indicated a shift to La Nina, which is El Nino\u2019s cooler counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t prevent unusually high global sea surface temperatures worldwide, with average temperatures in August hotter than in the same month of any other year except for 2023.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union&#8217;s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-environment","category-headline"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23290,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283\/revisions\/23290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}