The research by the EU’s Copernicus weather service found global temperatures were more than 1.5C hotter than average.
Despite Scotland's cool and miserable weather, Earth sweltered in its hottest summer on record in 2024, new findings show.
It comes as brutal heatwaves have brought misery across swathes of the US, Australia and Asia this year. Global heating has been exacerbated by the naturally occurring El Nino weather phenomenon which spreads warm water around the world, although scientists say that’s now tailing off, raising hopes the world may cool slightly next year.
Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess said: “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. Top news stories today With a forecasted La Nina - the opposite of El Nino, a temporary natural cooling of parts of the central Pacific - the last four months of the year may see record-breaking temperatures ease.
She said: "Like people living in a war zone with the constant thumping of bombs and clatter of guns, we are becoming deaf to what should be alarm bells and air-raid sirens.”
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