June-August 2024 were hottest ever recorded: EU monitor

The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change. "During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a report. "This string of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on...