The Earth is enduring its hottest-ever Northern Hemisphere summer, with a record August adding to a season of brutal and deadly temperatures.
As summer temperatures soar, supplying electricity has become an intractable problem for countries like Iraq and Iran, where people sweat and stew.Copernicus, a division of the European Union’s space program, has records going back to 1940. But in Britain and the United States, global records go back to the mid-1800s, and the two countries’ weather and science agencies are expected to concur that this summer has been a record-breaker.
“What we are observing — not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the— are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,” Copernicus Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said. Scientists have used tree rings, ice cores and other proxies to estimate that temperatures are now warmer than they have been in about 120,000 years. The world has been warmer before, but that was prior to human civilization, whenSo far, daily September temperatures are higher than what has been recorded before for this time of year, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
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