Last 10 months all broke global temperature records
Climate change continues to drive exceptional heat

BRUSSELS, April 9 Reuters The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union39;s climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday.

Each of the last 10 months ranked as the world39;s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the EU39;s Copernicus Climate Change Service C3S said in a monthly bulletin.

The 12 months ending with March also ranked as the planet39;s hottest ever recorded 12month period, C3S said. From April 2023 to March 2024, the global average temperature was 1.58 degrees Celsius above the average in the 18501900 preindustrial period.

It39;s the longterm trend with exceptional records that has us very concerned, C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess told Reuters.

Seeing records like this month in, month out really shows us that our climate is changing, is changing rapidly, she added.

C3S39; dataset goes back to 1940, which the scientists crosschecked with other data to confirm that last month was the hottest March since the preindustrial period.

Already, 2023 was the planet39;s hottest year in global records going back to 1850.

Extreme weather and exceptional temperatures have wreaked havoc this year.

Climate changedriven drought in the Amazon rainforest region unleashed a record number of wildfires in Venezuela…