According to NASA’s top scientists, July 2023 is expected to be the warmest month on record in “hundreds, if not thousands, of years,” and they warned that the heat will only get worse.
The leading experts at NASA claim that the severe temperatures across continents are not surprising. They estimate that 2023 has a “50-50 chance” of breaking all previous records for temperature, with next year likely to be much warmer.
“We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world. The heatwaves that we are seeing in the US, in Europe, China, and demolishing records left, right and center.
This is not a surprise,” said Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
June of 2023 was already the hottest June on record and July is likely to be the hottest month overall. “We know from science is that human activity, principally greenhouse gas emissions, are unequivocally causing the warming we are seeing on our planet,” Kate Calvin, NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser, said at the same briefing.
