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As heat waves continue to bake parts of the world, scientists are reporting that this blistering, deadly summer was the hottest on record – and by a significant margin.

It’s been a searingly hot summer for swaths of the Northern Hemisphere – including parts of the United States, Europe and Japan – with record-breaking heat waves and unprecedented ocean temperatures.

Both July and August are estimated to have been 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels, according to Copernicus, a key threshold scientists have long warned the world must stay under to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

While scientists are more focused on long-term global temperature rises, these temporary breaches are an important preview of what the world can expect summers to look like at 1.5 degrees of warming.

“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,” Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said in a statement.

“The scientific evidence is overwhelming – we will continue to see more climate records and more intense and frequent extreme weather events impacting society and ecosystems, until we stop emitting greenhouse gases,” she said in a statement.

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