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The average global temperature has reached 17.01 degrees Celsius, the US National Centers for Environmental Forecasting (NCEP) said on Tuesday. This surpassed the previous record of August 2016 with 16.92 degrees Celsius.
“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said researcher Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, which specializes in climate change and the environment. “It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”
In the past few weeks, the southern United States has suffered from an intense heatwave. A heat wave continued in China, with temperatures reaching over 35 degrees. North Africa recorded temperatures close to 50 degrees. The thermometers also rose unusually high in the Antarctic: At the Ukrainian polar station Vernadsky, the temperature record for June was recently broken with 8.7 degrees. Scientists have blamed climate change in conjunction with an emerging El Niño phenomenon for the development.
Source: Nachrichten
