July 2023 is on track to be the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
“We don’t have to wait for the end of the month to know this. Short of a mini-Ice Age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter records across the board,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists at UN headquarters in New York.
“The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change and a foretaste of the future,” said World Meteorological Organization’s Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas.