According to measurements by the US climate agency NOAA, last month was the warmest July worldwide since records began in 1880. The average temperature over land and oceans was 0.93 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average of 15.8 degrees according to This was announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Friday. This means that July 2021 exceeded the same months of 2016, 2019 and 2020 – previous record holders according to NOAA – by 0.01 degrees Celsius.
“July is typically the warmest month of the year in the world, but July 2021 has overtaken itself as the hottest July and the hottest month ever,” said Rick Spinrad, CEO of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “This new record is in addition to the worrying and erosive trajectory that climate change is preparing for the Earth.” So it is very likely that 2021 will be one of the ten warmest years ever recorded.
It was especially warm in July According to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), particularly in Asia — but also in North and South America and Africa, the month was one of the ten hottest July on record. In Europe, this was the second warmest July on record It was.
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This was previously announced by the European Copernicus Climate Change Service on the basis of its own calculations. In European July before, it was much warmer in 2010, among other things, when a violent heat wave erupted over western Russia. According to Copernicus records, the third warmest July was globally, so it was slightly below the 2016 and 2019 values.
At the start of the week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presented the consequences of man-made global warming more acutely than ever in a new report. She said that if there were no strong and rapid reductions in emissions, the average global temperature in the next 20 years would reach a value of at least 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperature.
Because of rising temperatures, people will have to prepare for more extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves. Recently, there have been a number of disasters such as floods in Germany and extreme heat waves in southeastern Europe and western Canada. (dpa)
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