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The summer of 2024 was the world's hottest on record, and global warming continues to intensify
According to Reuters, the summer of 2024 surpassed last year's and became the "hottest". The exceptional heat increases the likelihood that all of 2024 will surpass 2023 as the planet's warmest year on record.
"For the last three months of 2024, the planet had the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record and the hottest boreal summer on record," scientists say.
According to them, if countries do not urgently reduce emissions that heat the planet, extreme weather conditions will only become more intense.
The planet's climate change has reportedly continued to fuel disasters this summer. In Sudan, flooding from torrential rains last month affected more than 300 people and brought cholera to the war-torn country.
Scientists have also confirmed that climate change is responsible for severe drought in the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and it exacerbated Typhoon Gaemi, which tore through the Philippines, Taiwan and China in July, killing more than 100 people.
Reference: Boreal climate is a climate of moderate latitudes with well-defined snowy winters and relatively short warm summers.
Global warming: the scientist said whether snowy winters and cold summers will disappear in Ukraine
Global warming does not guarantee that each subsequent summer will be hotter than the last, as temperature fluctuations will persist. Candidate of geographical sciences, specialist in atmospheric and geocosm physics Denys Pishnyak says this.
According to him, natural fluctuations make it difficult to accurately determine climate trends, but hot and cool years will alternate.
Pyshnyak also assured that the snow will not disappear in winter, although not every year will be snowy. However, the snow will not always stay on the surface.
