‘Death sentence for people’: World’s hottest day ever on July 3

New Delhi: Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Center for Environmental Prediction. The worldwide heatwave caused the average global temperature to reach 17.01 °C (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F).

South America has been grappling with extreme heat in recent weeks. In China, a persistent heatwave continued, with temperatures above 35C (95F). North Africa has seen temperatures close to 50C (122F).

And even in Antarctica, which is currently in winter, abnormally high temperatures have been recorded. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the Argentine Islands of the White Continent recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7C (47.6F).

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“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friedrich Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain’s Imperial College London.

“It’s a death sentence for people and the ecosystem.”

Scientists said climate change along with the emerging El Nino pattern is responsible for this.

“Unfortunately, this promises to be only the first in a series of new records set this year as the growing El Niño phenomenon, along with increased emissions of (carbon dioxide) and greenhouse gases, have driven temperatures to new highs.” , “said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, in a statement.