Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU’s climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves.
Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
“This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate,” said the service director, Carlo Buontempo.
“Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm.”
This was “inevitable” as long as humanity kept adding heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, he said.
