For the second consecutive year, the world experienced its warmest summer on record.

• The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the EU announced on Friday that the global average temperature during the boreal summer, specifically the Northern Hemisphere's June through August period, reached a new record high.
• In just three months, the world has recorded the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record, according to Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S.
• Burgess stated in a written statement that the current string of record temperatures is raising the probability that 2024 will be the warmest year on record.

In 2024, the summer was the hottest on record, according to the European Union's climate monitor, continuing a concerning streak of temperature records that has put the planet on track to have its warmest year ever.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the EU announced on Friday that the global average temperature during the boreal summer, specifically the Northern Hemisphere's June through August period, reached a new record high.

The June-August period in 2021 was 0.69 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average, surpassing the previous record of 0.66 degrees Celsius above the average baseline from June-August 2020.

In just three months, the world has recorded the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record, according to Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S.

Burgess stated in a written statement that the current string of record temperatures is raising the probability that 2024 will be the warmest year on record.

Unless we take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the temperature-related extreme events witnessed this summer will only become more intense, with more devastating consequences for people and the planet.

Since the start of the year, an unprecedented number of national heat records have been broken, and the data from C3S, which tracks daily global mean temperature since 1940, confirms this trend.

The burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause of the climate crisis, which increases the likelihood of extreme heat.

To prevent global average temperatures from increasing, scientists have consistently urged for swift decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.