Global temperatures soar, Earth approaches irreversible limit

According to European Union (EU) scientists, last July became the third hottest July ever recorded on Earth, with Türkiye experiencing a record high temperature of 50.5 degrees Celsius.

People move on the street under the hot sun in Osaka, Japan. (Photo: THX/TTXVN)

Although it did not break global temperature records like the previous two years, this July continued the streak of extreme weather - an undeniable consequence of human-caused climate change.

Data from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows that the global average air temperature in July reached 16.68 degrees Celsius, 0.45 degrees Celsius higher than the average of the period 1991-2020.

“Two years after the hottest July on record, the global heat record streak has just paused, but that doesn’t mean climate change has stopped. We are still seeing the effects of a warming world through events like extreme heat and catastrophic flooding in July,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S.

While it won't surpass July 2023 (the hottest July on record) or July 2024 (the second-hottest July on record), the average global temperature last month was still 1.25 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial times (1850-1900), when humans began using fossil fuels on a large scale.

Over the 12-month period from August 2024 to July 2025, the Earth has warmed 1.53 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels – surpassing the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold set in the Paris Agreement on climate change as a “safe” limit to avoid the most catastrophic climate impacts.

The main cause of global warming is greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

2024 is set to be the hottest year on record. And while the world hasn’t officially broken the 1.5°C threshold—that threshold is based on decades-long averages—many scientists say the chances of keeping the increase below that threshold are slim.

Scientists are urging global governments to accelerate cuts in CO2 levels - to reduce excesses and curb the growing wave of extreme weather.

C3S data starting from 1940, compared with global datasets stretching back to 1850, providing a long-term and accurate view of the Earth's warming process./.

According to VNA

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