Julien Nicolas

The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures ever recorded, beating last year's record and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.

The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change.

The scorching heatwave, known as “Lucifer,” is blazing through Geria Epirus, pushing temperatures back into the 40s across Greece.

Due to greenhouse gases emitted by human activities, global temperature records have been consistently broken for over a year now. June 2024 was the warmest month ever recorded, surpassing the previous record set in June 2023.

People cool off in misters along the Las Vegas Strip, Sunday, July 7, 2024, in Las Vegas

Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves.

The world saw its hottest June on record last month, the EU's climate monitoring service said yesterday, as climate change and the El Nino weather pattern looked likely to drive another scorching northern summer.