July this year was the third warmest July on Earth since records began, according to researchers, according to Reuters.
This continued the extreme climate conditions that scientists attribute to human-caused global warming. But no record was set. The warmest July was in 2023, and the second warmest was in 2024. However, a temperature record was set in Turkey with 50.5 degrees Celsius.
According to the EU's Copernicus Climate Monitoring Service (C3S), the global average air temperature at the ground surface was 16.68 degrees Celsius in July. That's 0.45 degrees Celsius above the global average for the month from 1991 to 2020.
- Two years after the hottest July in history, the recent string of global temperature records is over - for now, says Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S.
- But that doesn't mean climate change has stopped. We continue to witness the consequences of global warming with events such as extreme heat and catastrophic floods in July.
Exceeding Paris Agreement goals
The period from August 2024 to July 2025 was 1.53 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, when we started burning coal and oil.
This period thus exceeded the 1.5 degree limit that the world agreed to in the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to keep global warming below. The agreement came into force in 2016. The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.
In Denmark, July was particularly characterized by being wet. Here it entered the tenth place among July months with the most precipitation. At the same time, there were also warm days. In Holbæk, 34 degrees Celsius was measured on July 2, which was the hottest day on Zealand in 50 years and the hottest summer day in three years, writes DR.
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