Early data shows June temperatures hitting record highs ahead of El Niño that experts say will have significant heating effect

Global temperatures have accelerated to record-setting levels this month, an ominous sign in the climate crisis ahead of a gathering El Niño that could potentially propel 2023 to become the hottest year ever recorded.

There has been “remarkable global warmth” so far in June, confirmed Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation arm, which said that the first few days of the month even breached a 1.5C increase compared with pre-industrial times. This is probably the first time this has happened since industrialization, the agency said.

The long-term warming conditions caused by the burning of fossil fuels will probably receive a further pulse of heat via El Niño, a naturally recurring phenomenon where sections of the Pacific Ocean heat up, typically causing temperatures to spike across the world.

  • arefxEnglish
    17•2 years ago

    Get ready to see this headline often, year after year, I guess.

    • @AcetamideEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      I think I have already seen this headline year after year for the last…what…5 years at least?

        • @MercuryUprising
          1•2 years ago

          Not as horrifying as when a billion people start pushing against borders because they have nowhere to go. We are in for a refugee crisis that will see authoritarian governments outright mass murdering anyone who tried to get in.

    • NimNimOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Haha… It doesn’t matter much where we live; in one way or another, we will eventually face difficulties or unfavourable circumstances.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        For a brief moment I was into the idea of prepping until it I realized that no living creature can escape this mess. I’ve prepped enough to be mobile with the idea that mutual aid will fill in the gaps somehow.

        Not the best plan but I can only push through my indifference so much. I’m trying to spend my time now with the people I hold closest to me and making sure they know how much I appreciate them.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      I was seriously considering doing the same, but am slowly changing my mind. Prague is starting to look better and better, LOL.

      • @MercuryUprisingEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I spent a few months in CEE today and it fucking sucked. I was still wearing my winter coat into the end of May and there was almost no fucking sun. 6 months of shit weather is absolutely brutal on the psyche.

      • twitterfluechtlingEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        True. I am considering getting a retirement residency somewhere near Bremen, to have a nice beach with Coconut trees at the North Sea beach… (Still ~20 years to go till retirement, if I plant coconut trees now, they might thrive by the time I retire)