August Recorded As Earth's Hottest Month Ever Measured
· World · The Independent, ABC News (AU)
Earth experienced its hottest global month on record in August, with the average temperature reaching 16.96 degrees Celsius. The European climate service Copernicus attributed this extreme heat to the combination of human-caused climate change and a powerful El Nino event. This figure exceeds the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold established by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. In the United States, the summer period across the lower 48 states was hotter than the peak of the historic Dust Bowl in 1936. Global ocean temperatures also hit record-time highs, with August 22 marking as the warmest day ever recorded in the seas.
Why it matters
The record-breaking heat levels increase the frequency of infrastructure failure, such as melting roads and buckling train lines, while overwhelming healthcare systems globally.
Read the original report — The Independent
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