World Meteorologist: July was the warmest in 120,000 years

Alanbat - Feryal Altamimi

The World Meteorological Organization said that the average global temperature for the month of July 2023 reached the highest level ever recorded, and that evidence indicates that it was the warmest in at least 120,000 years.

The deputy director of the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Change Service, Samantha Burgess, said during a press conference in Geneva that it had been confirmed that the average global temperature for July 2023 was "the highest ever for any month."

The temperature was estimated to have been about 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the average in the period from 1815 to 1900, that is, before the industrial age.

Burgess noted, drawing on an analysis of data known as proxy records, which include cave deposits, calcified organisms, corals and shells, that the world "has not been this warm in 120,000 years."

For his part, Director of Climate Services at the World Meteorological Organization, Chris Hewitt, referred to the UN agency's forecast of the possibility that one of the next five years will be one of the warmest years ever, "by 98 %".