Summer's climate change implications

Some people like hot weather, but not this hot! Scientists at NASA say that world temperature records show that June 2023 is now the hottest. NASA's results were confirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Union and the National Centres for Environmental Information of NOAA; this makes it more likely that global warming will lead to hotter and deadlier summers.

"The data for GISTEMP, NASA's global temperature analysis, come from weather stations, Antarctic research stations, instruments on ships and ocean buoys," NASA said in a press statement.''

Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, part of the space agency, look over this data regularly to look for any oddities and keep a consistent way of figuring out the world's surface temperature every year. According to the new research, the high temperatures on the ground align with data from satellites that have been collecting climate data since 2002.

NASA takes the average temperature from 1951 to 1980 as a starting point and then looks at how temperatures worldwide change.

As temperatures rise, so does the chance of people dying from the heat. With these new results in mind, the summer of 2023 could be a hazardous time all over the world.

Scientists in Europe just released a study that said more than 61,000 people would likely die from heat-related illnesses in the summer of 2022. A scary new study found that nearly 40,000 people died in Europe in just one month, with the highest number of heat-related deaths happening in Italy, Spain, and Germany.