August joint hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat
Climate change and the rising influence of El Niño saw August reach the record for warmest month.
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""a remarkable month in the global climate record""
— Dr Samantha Burgess , Academic
""The evidence is irrefutable: this is the spiralling price of humanity's fossil fuel addiction, and the global climate crisis it is fuelling.""
— Simon Stiell , Activist
""Until we stop burning fossil fuels these records will continue to tumble, and the extremes will worsen faster than we are able to adapt.""
— Dr Clair Barnes , Academic
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Climate change and the rising influence of El Niño saw August reach the record for warmest month.
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