The EU’s climate change monitoring service reported that last month marked the hottest June ever recorded, continuing a trend of unusually high temperatures that some scientists believe could make 2024 the hottest year on record globally.
Since June 2023, every consecutive month has been the hottest on record according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Experts suggest that 2024 may surpass 2023 as the hottest year ever recorded due to human-induced climate change and the El Nino weather pattern driving temperatures to unprecedented levels.
Zeke Hausfather, a scientist at Berkeley Earth, estimates a 95% chance of this occurring. The altered climate has already led to tragic outcomes worldwide in 2024, including over 1,000 deaths in scorching heat during the haj pilgrimage, prolonged heatwaves in New Delhi, and fatalities among tourists in Greece.