Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius, surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92 degrees Celsius as heatwaves sizzled around the world. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent’s Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7 degrees Celsius. “This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain’s Imperial College London. “It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, were to blame.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 04, 2023 18:49 UTC