Euronews.green writes that preliminary data collected by the meteorologists show that the global average temperature was 17.09 degrees Celsius, 0.01 degrees Celsius higher than the previous all-time high set last year on July 6th. C3S said that human-induced climate change is to blame here, as if it wasn't for human intervention through the burn of fossil fuels and pollution in general, these records would be broken much less often.

Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said that "we are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years.”

Temperatures were also higher than usual in other areas, such as Antarctica and California, which caused several wildfires in the latter region, contributing to higher temperatures and pollution.

Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather is one of the researchers who now estimate there's a 92 per cent chance that 2024 will beat 2023 as the warmest year on record.

Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler said that "the warming will continue as long as we’re dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and we have the technology to largely stop doing that today. What we lack is political will."