Summer of 2024 was world's hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says

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00:00Record-breaking temperatures in China and in Japan.

00:03Heatwaves in the United States.

00:06Massive fires in southern Europe like here in Spain.

00:10Extreme weather events continue to occur across the globe over the past three months.

00:14The summer of 2024 has broken last year's already record-breaker

00:19as the hottest recorded summer on earth.

00:22What we are seeing is not just a random fluctuation

00:27but is really there is a disproportional effect that is induced

00:31by this long-term accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

00:34The average global temperature on the earth's surface was 16.82 degrees in August

00:39according to Europe's climate service Copernicus.

00:42That is 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial age average

00:46which is for scientists a key threshold

00:49when it comes to measuring the effects of human-made greenhouse gases

00:52and how they've warmed the planet.

00:54Capping climate change at 1.5 degrees was also the objective of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

01:0013 out of the past 14 months have surpassed that level.

01:05The record-breaking temperatures in June and in August

01:07were exacerbated by the warming El Niño phenomenon

01:11but it wasn't just El Niño.

01:13The main responsibility is really the anthropogenic climate change

01:18and the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

01:20Copernicus says that the incoming cooling cycle, La Niña,

01:24will not likely bring the planet's temperatures down enough

01:27to keep 2024 from becoming the hottest year ever recorded.

01:32Scientists say that climate change is upon us and getting worse.

01:36The only thing to stop that cycle of death and destruction

01:39is to curb through our actions global emissions.

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