Even the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which registers global temperature extremes, admitted that it was having trouble keeping up. Indeed, the latest report from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, which tracks global temperatures using billions of measurements taken from around the world, confirms what we already know: June 2021 was the warmest June recorded in North America. But these early summer extremes are taking place against the backdrop of human-induced climate change. Average global temperatures are already 1.2°C higher than pre-industrial levels. Unless attitudes change, record heat won’t either.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 07, 2021 15:55 UTC