that efforts to halt a rise in temperatures are falling short of what is needed to avert the most catastrophic effects of global warming.
"All the numbers are suggesting that we're going in the wrong direction when it comes to the heat, the intensity of the heat and how prolonged it is," the Met Office's meteorologist Clare Nasir told Reuters.day when temperatures topped the 40 Celsius mark for the first time, causing disruption to infrastructure like airports and railways, and sparking wildfires.
"Alongside natural variability, the background warming of the Earth’s atmosphere due to human-induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record high temperatures," said Paul Davies, Met Office Climate Extremes Principal Fellow and Chief Meteorologist.recorded temperatures of up to 44C as the two biggest emitters, China and the United States, saw a series of heatwaves in June.