the planet observed its hottest June on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and record low Antarctic sea ice.that the combination of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the return of El Niño is likely to mean the worst is still to come.
On Monday, the global average temperature was found to have climbed to 17.01 degrees Celsius, surpassing 17 degrees Celsius for the first time in 44 years — when the data was first collected. The previous record high came in 2016, the hottest year ever recorded, when in August of that year the metric showed the global average temperature reached 16.92 degrees Celsius.
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