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July 24, 2024 |  By: AP

Monday recorded as hottest day ever globally

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Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service.

Provisional published by Copernicus on Wednesday showed that Monday broke the previous day's record by 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.1 degree Fahrenheit) with the global average temperature of 17.15 degrees Celsius, or 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit.  Climate scientists say the world is now as warm as it was 125,000 years ago because of human-caused climate change.

While scientists cannot be certain that Monday was the very hottest day throughout that period, average temperatures have not been this high since long before humans developed agriculture.  The temperature rise in recent decades is in line with what climate scientists projected would happen if humans kept burning fossil fuels at an increasing rate.