August 2024 confirmed as Earth's hottest month on record

Global climate agencies confirmed that August 2024 was the hottest month ever recorded, driven by the emergence of a strong El Niño event.

10 Sept, 14:08 — 10 Sept, 16:43

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This record-breaking heat underscores the accelerating impact of global warming, exacerbated by natural climate cycles like El Niño, signaling a potential breach of critical planetary temperature thresholds. It serves as a stark warning from scientific bodies that current climate trends are intensifying, necessitating urgent mitigation and adaptation strategies to prevent further ecological and societal damage.

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cbcHigh2h ago

August was Earth's hottest month, European climate agency finds

Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

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France 24High3h ago

August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Nino emerges

Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino pattern grows stronger. Global temperatures over land and sea soared to all-time highs in August and capped an extreme summer of heatwaves and wildfires that ranked the hottest on record for western Europe and the contiguous United States.

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channel-news-asiaMostly Factual5h ago