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    “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement coinciding with the release of the latest data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) by the World Meteorological Organization.

    The WMO’s Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas, issued an urgent assessment of the data, saying: “The northern hemisphere just had a summer of extremes — with repeated heatwaves fueling devastating wildfires, harming health, disrupting daily lives and wreaking a lasting toll on the environment.”

    The WMO report, which includes the Copernicus data as well information from five other monitoring organizations around the world, showed it was the hottest August on record “by a large margin,” according to the U.N. agency, both on land and in the global monthly average for sea surface temperatures.

    The WMO cited the U.K.'s government’s Met Office weather agency, which has warned there is “a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record.”

    In order to slow the greater heating trend, she explained, humans need to reduce carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

    Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, noted that August 2023 “was estimated to be around 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels.”


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