Last month was the world’s worst recorded July in terms of wildfires since at least 2003 when satellite records began, scientists say, as wildfire season is yet to peak in many areas.
Extreme heat and prolonged drought caused forests and grasslands around the world to catch fire, releasing 343 megatons of carbon, about a fifth higher than the previous 2014 global peak for July.
The unprecedented fires are the latest in a series of events demonstrating the destructive impact of manmade climate change.
Europe roasted under one of its worst heatwaves in decades with Temperatures in Greece approaching Europe’s all-time record of 48 degrees, while wildfires raged in Turkey, Greece, Italy and Finland.
The United Nations is expected to deliver on Monday its biggest warning yet on climate change since 2013, detailing how greenhouse gas emissions in the last decade have driven global temperature to climb.
The report “will underscore the urgency for governments to ramp up climate action,”said Kelly Levin, chief of science, data and systems change at the Bezos Earth Fund philanthropy.
“The report will cover not only the fact that we are smashing record after record in terms of climate change impacts, but show that the world today is in unchartered territory in terms of sea level rise and ice cover.”
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