UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today, Wednesday, that “the climate collapse has begun.”
This came in a statement issued by Guterres, commenting on the announcement by the Copernicus Observatory that the northern hemisphere summer was the hottest ever.
“Scientists have long warned about the implications of our dependence on fossil fuels,” Guterres said.
“The climate is exploding faster than our ability to deal with extreme weather phenomena that hit all parts of the earth,” he added.
Copernicus Observatory: 2023 hottest year on record
And the European Copernicus Observatory stated in its announcement that the average global temperature in the last three months recorded its highest level so far.
“Given the extra heat on the surface of the oceans, 2023 is likely to be the hottest year,” Samantha Burgess, assistant director of the Copernicus Observatory for Climate Change, told AFP.
Earlier, the observatory said that last July broke the record for the hottest month ever in the world, with a difference of 0.33 degrees Celsius from July of 2019.
Last month, which witnessed heat waves and forest fires across the world, recorded an air temperature 0.72 degrees hotter than the months of July in the years between 1991 and 2020.
And this result was expected, as scientists said as of July 27 that it is “very likely” that July of this year will be the hottest month ever.
This prompted the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to say that humanity has moved from the stage of climate warming to entering the “global boiling stage”.
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2023-09-06 08:46:35
