June 2024 marked the twelfth consecutive month that the average global temperature was 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial average, according to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. This string of record-high temperatures marks a trend that, if it is to continue into the years to come, could mean that we areread more
Intense heat waves are causing humanitarian disasters around the world, with India, Mexico, the Middle East and the United States baking under extreme temperatures, with records being broken in all affected regions. In Saudi Arabia, nearly 1,200 Muslim pilgrims participating in the annual Hajj to Mecca have died between June 14 and 19, the resultread more
The Earth has just experienced the hottest twelve consecutive months on record, according to the world’s top meteorological organizations, with January 2024 capping the record-hot run as not only the warmest January since 1850, but also the eighth consecutive record-breaking month on record. This continues the ongoing global warming-driven climbread more
June 2019 is officially the warmest June on record since record-keeping began in 1880, according to new data released by NASA. And on top of this dubious distinction, the first half of 2019 was the second hottest such period on record, second only to 2016, with each of the lastread more