This July is set to be the joint-warmest month on record for the world – and may even be the hottest ever seen, provisional figures indicate.

Figures suggest global average temperatures for the month will be “on a par with and possibly marginally higher” than those seen in July 2016, the previous warmest July – and warmest month overall – on record.

The assessment shows that July 2019 will have been around 1.2C (2.16F) above pre-industrial levels.

Hottest

The provisional assessment is based on data for July 1 to 29 from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Final, confirmed data for the month will be published on Monday.

The difference in temperatures between the months of July 2016 and 2019 in the assessment is smaller than the difference typically seen between the various sets of global data which the analysis uses, the experts said.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year, they said.

The latest figures come after June 2019 was recorded as the hottest June in the records.

Swallow

Record-breaking heatwaves gripped parts of the northern hemisphere in July, with the UK seeing a new high temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) set in Cambridge on Thursday July 25 as the country sweltered in the heat.

Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands also saw national records broken as exceptionally high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week.

Earlier in the month, parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

Prof Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “Months which break the global temperature record, such as July 2016 and June and July 2019, are now the expectation rather than a surprise since this is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities.

“Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one record month does not tell us much on its own since the fickle nature of weather systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool the planet.

Fundamental

“However, the clustering of recent record hot years and months, the longer-term warming trend and our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating up, it’s our fault and the way to stop this is to reduce and begin removing emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Prof Dann Mitchell, associate professor of atmosphere science at the University of Bristol, said the current global data showed July was “probably the warmest on record”.

“The warming trend is clear and the scientific evidence robustly points to this being caused by human induced climate change.”

He warned: “A 1.2C increase in global temperature, as reported for this July, almost certainly means an even higher increase in temperature over land, and cities, which are known to warm faster than the oceans.”

Tens of thousands of people can die prematurely in heatwaves and such incidents were projected to get significantly worse in the future, so “fundamental infrastructure changes” are needed to adapt to climate change.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent. Image: Mr.TinDC. “So hot! My neighborhood in Columbia Heights definitely runs on the warm side. Thermometer not in direct sunlight.”

Boris Johnson’s government must invest in a new “sustainable industrial revolution” to deliver the recovery of nature and the climate, the chairs of two of its agencies have urged.

The Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd and Natural England chairman Tony Juniper have called on new prime minister to make environmental issues a top priority.

And they have warned that where once environmental harm was seen as “the price of progress”, it is now apparent that a failure to reverse damage to nature, water quality, wildlife losses and climate change will halt progress.

Global scale

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy,” they say in a comment piece published on the Green Alliance website.

Their call comes as parts of the UK battle floods in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave, both extreme weather events which are becoming more likely in the face of climate change.

They warn that there is a pressing need to take action to avoid the biggest global-scale loss of species in more than 60 million years, in what has been described as the sixth mass extinction.

Ms Howard Boyd and Mr Juniper welcomed moves by Mr Johnson to back the new net zero emissions target to tackle climate change, which his predecessor Theresa May set into law before she left office.

But they warned “it is not, however, enough to say ‘we will leave the environment in a better state’, we need to also invest in delivery”.

Leadership

They called for the government to use the forthcoming spending review to invest in environmental recovery, which they argue would provide opportunities to deliver new clean tech and sustainable agriculture.

“We are convinced that now is the time to find the resources needed for the recovery of natural systems that sustain our society and economy,” the agency leaders said.

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy, making the recovery of the environment a sound economic investment.

“It would create huge opportunities to develop clean technologies and new forms of sustainable agriculture. It would also bolster the City of London’s leadership in green finance.

Wildlife

“This country was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and, at this critical juncture in the world’s future, now is the time to act and enable the UK to lead once again in a new Sustainable Industrial Revolution.

“If we invest in the recovery of nature and climate we know that it will increase long-term stability for our health, security and prosperity.

“This is the new reality and the present imperative. It is not, as some would see it, an optional ‘green’ choice that we can only afford in the good times.”

Measures to help the environment have public backing, and people are “rightly expecting action”, they added.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are public bodies with responsibility for areas including waste, pollution, water quality, flooding, wildlife and landscapes.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent.

This July is set to be the joint-warmest month on record for the world – and may even be the hottest ever seen, provisional figures indicate.

Figures suggest global average temperatures for the month will be “on a par with and possibly marginally higher” than those seen in July 2016, the previous warmest July – and warmest month overall – on record.

The assessment shows that July 2019 will have been around 1.2C (2.16F) above pre-industrial levels.

Hottest

The provisional assessment is based on data for July 1 to 29 from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Final, confirmed data for the month will be published on Monday.

The difference in temperatures between the months of July 2016 and 2019 in the assessment is smaller than the difference typically seen between the various sets of global data which the analysis uses, the experts said.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year, they said.

The latest figures come after June 2019 was recorded as the hottest June in the records.

Swallow

Record-breaking heatwaves gripped parts of the northern hemisphere in July, with the UK seeing a new high temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) set in Cambridge on Thursday July 25 as the country sweltered in the heat.

Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands also saw national records broken as exceptionally high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week.

Earlier in the month, parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

Prof Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “Months which break the global temperature record, such as July 2016 and June and July 2019, are now the expectation rather than a surprise since this is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities.

“Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one record month does not tell us much on its own since the fickle nature of weather systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool the planet.

Fundamental

“However, the clustering of recent record hot years and months, the longer-term warming trend and our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating up, it’s our fault and the way to stop this is to reduce and begin removing emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Prof Dann Mitchell, associate professor of atmosphere science at the University of Bristol, said the current global data showed July was “probably the warmest on record”.

“The warming trend is clear and the scientific evidence robustly points to this being caused by human induced climate change.”

He warned: “A 1.2C increase in global temperature, as reported for this July, almost certainly means an even higher increase in temperature over land, and cities, which are known to warm faster than the oceans.”

Tens of thousands of people can die prematurely in heatwaves and such incidents were projected to get significantly worse in the future, so “fundamental infrastructure changes” are needed to adapt to climate change.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent. Image: Mr.TinDC. “So hot! My neighborhood in Columbia Heights definitely runs on the warm side. Thermometer not in direct sunlight.”

Boris Johnson’s government must invest in a new “sustainable industrial revolution” to deliver the recovery of nature and the climate, the chairs of two of its agencies have urged.

The Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd and Natural England chairman Tony Juniper have called on new prime minister to make environmental issues a top priority.

And they have warned that where once environmental harm was seen as “the price of progress”, it is now apparent that a failure to reverse damage to nature, water quality, wildlife losses and climate change will halt progress.

Global scale

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy,” they say in a comment piece published on the Green Alliance website.

Their call comes as parts of the UK battle floods in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave, both extreme weather events which are becoming more likely in the face of climate change.

They warn that there is a pressing need to take action to avoid the biggest global-scale loss of species in more than 60 million years, in what has been described as the sixth mass extinction.

Ms Howard Boyd and Mr Juniper welcomed moves by Mr Johnson to back the new net zero emissions target to tackle climate change, which his predecessor Theresa May set into law before she left office.

But they warned “it is not, however, enough to say ‘we will leave the environment in a better state’, we need to also invest in delivery”.

Leadership

They called for the government to use the forthcoming spending review to invest in environmental recovery, which they argue would provide opportunities to deliver new clean tech and sustainable agriculture.

“We are convinced that now is the time to find the resources needed for the recovery of natural systems that sustain our society and economy,” the agency leaders said.

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy, making the recovery of the environment a sound economic investment.

“It would create huge opportunities to develop clean technologies and new forms of sustainable agriculture. It would also bolster the City of London’s leadership in green finance.

Wildlife

“This country was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and, at this critical juncture in the world’s future, now is the time to act and enable the UK to lead once again in a new Sustainable Industrial Revolution.

“If we invest in the recovery of nature and climate we know that it will increase long-term stability for our health, security and prosperity.

“This is the new reality and the present imperative. It is not, as some would see it, an optional ‘green’ choice that we can only afford in the good times.”

Measures to help the environment have public backing, and people are “rightly expecting action”, they added.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are public bodies with responsibility for areas including waste, pollution, water quality, flooding, wildlife and landscapes.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent.

This July is set to be the joint-warmest month on record for the world – and may even be the hottest ever seen, provisional figures indicate.

Figures suggest global average temperatures for the month will be “on a par with and possibly marginally higher” than those seen in July 2016, the previous warmest July – and warmest month overall – on record.

The assessment shows that July 2019 will have been around 1.2C (2.16F) above pre-industrial levels.

Hottest

The provisional assessment is based on data for July 1 to 29 from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Final, confirmed data for the month will be published on Monday.

The difference in temperatures between the months of July 2016 and 2019 in the assessment is smaller than the difference typically seen between the various sets of global data which the analysis uses, the experts said.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year, they said.

The latest figures come after June 2019 was recorded as the hottest June in the records.

Swallow

Record-breaking heatwaves gripped parts of the northern hemisphere in July, with the UK seeing a new high temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) set in Cambridge on Thursday July 25 as the country sweltered in the heat.

Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands also saw national records broken as exceptionally high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week.

Earlier in the month, parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

Prof Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “Months which break the global temperature record, such as July 2016 and June and July 2019, are now the expectation rather than a surprise since this is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities.

“Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one record month does not tell us much on its own since the fickle nature of weather systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool the planet.

Fundamental

“However, the clustering of recent record hot years and months, the longer-term warming trend and our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating up, it’s our fault and the way to stop this is to reduce and begin removing emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Prof Dann Mitchell, associate professor of atmosphere science at the University of Bristol, said the current global data showed July was “probably the warmest on record”.

“The warming trend is clear and the scientific evidence robustly points to this being caused by human induced climate change.”

He warned: “A 1.2C increase in global temperature, as reported for this July, almost certainly means an even higher increase in temperature over land, and cities, which are known to warm faster than the oceans.”

Tens of thousands of people can die prematurely in heatwaves and such incidents were projected to get significantly worse in the future, so “fundamental infrastructure changes” are needed to adapt to climate change.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent. Image: Mr.TinDC. “So hot! My neighborhood in Columbia Heights definitely runs on the warm side. Thermometer not in direct sunlight.”

Boris Johnson’s government must invest in a new “sustainable industrial revolution” to deliver the recovery of nature and the climate, the chairs of two of its agencies have urged.

The Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd and Natural England chairman Tony Juniper have called on new prime minister to make environmental issues a top priority.

And they have warned that where once environmental harm was seen as “the price of progress”, it is now apparent that a failure to reverse damage to nature, water quality, wildlife losses and climate change will halt progress.

Global scale

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy,” they say in a comment piece published on the Green Alliance website.

Their call comes as parts of the UK battle floods in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave, both extreme weather events which are becoming more likely in the face of climate change.

They warn that there is a pressing need to take action to avoid the biggest global-scale loss of species in more than 60 million years, in what has been described as the sixth mass extinction.

Ms Howard Boyd and Mr Juniper welcomed moves by Mr Johnson to back the new net zero emissions target to tackle climate change, which his predecessor Theresa May set into law before she left office.

But they warned “it is not, however, enough to say ‘we will leave the environment in a better state’, we need to also invest in delivery”.

Leadership

They called for the government to use the forthcoming spending review to invest in environmental recovery, which they argue would provide opportunities to deliver new clean tech and sustainable agriculture.

“We are convinced that now is the time to find the resources needed for the recovery of natural systems that sustain our society and economy,” the agency leaders said.

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy, making the recovery of the environment a sound economic investment.

“It would create huge opportunities to develop clean technologies and new forms of sustainable agriculture. It would also bolster the City of London’s leadership in green finance.

Wildlife

“This country was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and, at this critical juncture in the world’s future, now is the time to act and enable the UK to lead once again in a new Sustainable Industrial Revolution.

“If we invest in the recovery of nature and climate we know that it will increase long-term stability for our health, security and prosperity.

“This is the new reality and the present imperative. It is not, as some would see it, an optional ‘green’ choice that we can only afford in the good times.”

Measures to help the environment have public backing, and people are “rightly expecting action”, they added.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are public bodies with responsibility for areas including waste, pollution, water quality, flooding, wildlife and landscapes.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent.

This July is set to be the joint-warmest month on record for the world – and may even be the hottest ever seen, provisional figures indicate.

Figures suggest global average temperatures for the month will be “on a par with and possibly marginally higher” than those seen in July 2016, the previous warmest July – and warmest month overall – on record.

The assessment shows that July 2019 will have been around 1.2C (2.16F) above pre-industrial levels.

Hottest

The provisional assessment is based on data for July 1 to 29 from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Final, confirmed data for the month will be published on Monday.

The difference in temperatures between the months of July 2016 and 2019 in the assessment is smaller than the difference typically seen between the various sets of global data which the analysis uses, the experts said.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year, they said.

The latest figures come after June 2019 was recorded as the hottest June in the records.

Swallow

Record-breaking heatwaves gripped parts of the northern hemisphere in July, with the UK seeing a new high temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) set in Cambridge on Thursday July 25 as the country sweltered in the heat.

Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands also saw national records broken as exceptionally high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week.

Earlier in the month, parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

Prof Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “Months which break the global temperature record, such as July 2016 and June and July 2019, are now the expectation rather than a surprise since this is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities.

“Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one record month does not tell us much on its own since the fickle nature of weather systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool the planet.

Fundamental

“However, the clustering of recent record hot years and months, the longer-term warming trend and our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating up, it’s our fault and the way to stop this is to reduce and begin removing emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Prof Dann Mitchell, associate professor of atmosphere science at the University of Bristol, said the current global data showed July was “probably the warmest on record”.

“The warming trend is clear and the scientific evidence robustly points to this being caused by human induced climate change.”

He warned: “A 1.2C increase in global temperature, as reported for this July, almost certainly means an even higher increase in temperature over land, and cities, which are known to warm faster than the oceans.”

Tens of thousands of people can die prematurely in heatwaves and such incidents were projected to get significantly worse in the future, so “fundamental infrastructure changes” are needed to adapt to climate change.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent. Image: Mr.TinDC. “So hot! My neighborhood in Columbia Heights definitely runs on the warm side. Thermometer not in direct sunlight.”

Boris Johnson’s government must invest in a new “sustainable industrial revolution” to deliver the recovery of nature and the climate, the chairs of two of its agencies have urged.

The Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd and Natural England chairman Tony Juniper have called on new prime minister to make environmental issues a top priority.

And they have warned that where once environmental harm was seen as “the price of progress”, it is now apparent that a failure to reverse damage to nature, water quality, wildlife losses and climate change will halt progress.

Global scale

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy,” they say in a comment piece published on the Green Alliance website.

Their call comes as parts of the UK battle floods in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave, both extreme weather events which are becoming more likely in the face of climate change.

They warn that there is a pressing need to take action to avoid the biggest global-scale loss of species in more than 60 million years, in what has been described as the sixth mass extinction.

Ms Howard Boyd and Mr Juniper welcomed moves by Mr Johnson to back the new net zero emissions target to tackle climate change, which his predecessor Theresa May set into law before she left office.

But they warned “it is not, however, enough to say ‘we will leave the environment in a better state’, we need to also invest in delivery”.

Leadership

They called for the government to use the forthcoming spending review to invest in environmental recovery, which they argue would provide opportunities to deliver new clean tech and sustainable agriculture.

“We are convinced that now is the time to find the resources needed for the recovery of natural systems that sustain our society and economy,” the agency leaders said.

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy, making the recovery of the environment a sound economic investment.

“It would create huge opportunities to develop clean technologies and new forms of sustainable agriculture. It would also bolster the City of London’s leadership in green finance.

Wildlife

“This country was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and, at this critical juncture in the world’s future, now is the time to act and enable the UK to lead once again in a new Sustainable Industrial Revolution.

“If we invest in the recovery of nature and climate we know that it will increase long-term stability for our health, security and prosperity.

“This is the new reality and the present imperative. It is not, as some would see it, an optional ‘green’ choice that we can only afford in the good times.”

Measures to help the environment have public backing, and people are “rightly expecting action”, they added.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are public bodies with responsibility for areas including waste, pollution, water quality, flooding, wildlife and landscapes.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent.

This July is set to be the joint-warmest month on record for the world – and may even be the hottest ever seen, provisional figures indicate.

Figures suggest global average temperatures for the month will be “on a par with and possibly marginally higher” than those seen in July 2016, the previous warmest July – and warmest month overall – on record.

The assessment shows that July 2019 will have been around 1.2C (2.16F) above pre-industrial levels.

Hottest

The provisional assessment is based on data for July 1 to 29 from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Final, confirmed data for the month will be published on Monday.

The difference in temperatures between the months of July 2016 and 2019 in the assessment is smaller than the difference typically seen between the various sets of global data which the analysis uses, the experts said.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year, they said.

The latest figures come after June 2019 was recorded as the hottest June in the records.

Swallow

Record-breaking heatwaves gripped parts of the northern hemisphere in July, with the UK seeing a new high temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) set in Cambridge on Thursday July 25 as the country sweltered in the heat.

Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands also saw national records broken as exceptionally high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week.

Earlier in the month, parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

Prof Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “Months which break the global temperature record, such as July 2016 and June and July 2019, are now the expectation rather than a surprise since this is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities.

“Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one record month does not tell us much on its own since the fickle nature of weather systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool the planet.

Fundamental

“However, the clustering of recent record hot years and months, the longer-term warming trend and our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating up, it’s our fault and the way to stop this is to reduce and begin removing emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Prof Dann Mitchell, associate professor of atmosphere science at the University of Bristol, said the current global data showed July was “probably the warmest on record”.

“The warming trend is clear and the scientific evidence robustly points to this being caused by human induced climate change.”

He warned: “A 1.2C increase in global temperature, as reported for this July, almost certainly means an even higher increase in temperature over land, and cities, which are known to warm faster than the oceans.”

Tens of thousands of people can die prematurely in heatwaves and such incidents were projected to get significantly worse in the future, so “fundamental infrastructure changes” are needed to adapt to climate change.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent. Image: Mr.TinDC. “So hot! My neighborhood in Columbia Heights definitely runs on the warm side. Thermometer not in direct sunlight.”

Boris Johnson’s government must invest in a new “sustainable industrial revolution” to deliver the recovery of nature and the climate, the chairs of two of its agencies have urged.

The Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd and Natural England chairman Tony Juniper have called on new prime minister to make environmental issues a top priority.

And they have warned that where once environmental harm was seen as “the price of progress”, it is now apparent that a failure to reverse damage to nature, water quality, wildlife losses and climate change will halt progress.

Global scale

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy,” they say in a comment piece published on the Green Alliance website.

Their call comes as parts of the UK battle floods in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave, both extreme weather events which are becoming more likely in the face of climate change.

They warn that there is a pressing need to take action to avoid the biggest global-scale loss of species in more than 60 million years, in what has been described as the sixth mass extinction.

Ms Howard Boyd and Mr Juniper welcomed moves by Mr Johnson to back the new net zero emissions target to tackle climate change, which his predecessor Theresa May set into law before she left office.

But they warned “it is not, however, enough to say ‘we will leave the environment in a better state’, we need to also invest in delivery”.

Leadership

They called for the government to use the forthcoming spending review to invest in environmental recovery, which they argue would provide opportunities to deliver new clean tech and sustainable agriculture.

“We are convinced that now is the time to find the resources needed for the recovery of natural systems that sustain our society and economy,” the agency leaders said.

“A healthy environment is a necessary condition of a stable economy, making the recovery of the environment a sound economic investment.

“It would create huge opportunities to develop clean technologies and new forms of sustainable agriculture. It would also bolster the City of London’s leadership in green finance.

Wildlife

“This country was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and, at this critical juncture in the world’s future, now is the time to act and enable the UK to lead once again in a new Sustainable Industrial Revolution.

“If we invest in the recovery of nature and climate we know that it will increase long-term stability for our health, security and prosperity.

“This is the new reality and the present imperative. It is not, as some would see it, an optional ‘green’ choice that we can only afford in the good times.”

Measures to help the environment have public backing, and people are “rightly expecting action”, they added.

The Environment Agency and Natural England are public bodies with responsibility for areas including waste, pollution, water quality, flooding, wildlife and landscapes.

This Author

Emily Beament is the PA environment correspondent.