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World’s oceans hit hottest EVER recorded temperature of 20.96C after soaking up the warmth from climate change, scientists say

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Summer 2023 is adding more worrying records to the history books, with the world’s oceans hitting their hottest ever recorded temperature, scientists have revealed.

Data from the EU’s Copernicus programme shows that the average sea temperatures this week hit 69.72°F (20.96°C), beating a record of 69.71°F (20.95°C) set in March 2016.

Average sea temperatures have been climbing steadily since the 1970s, the data reveals, due to greenhouse gases trapping more heat and making the water feel ‘like a bath’, according

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Now SHARKS could get even angrier in warmer seas as world’s oceans hit hottest EVER recorded temperature of 20.96C after climate change heats up the planet’s waters, scientists warn

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Now SHARKS could get even angrier in warmer seas as world’s oceans hit hottest EVER recorded temperature of 20.96C after climate change heats up the planet’s waters, scientists warn

By Colin Fernandez Environment Correspondent and Jack Wright

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Now sharks could become even angrier after the world’s oceans have hit their highest recorded surface temperature, according to scientists.

Copernicus, the EU’s weather service, revealed yesterday that the sea surface temperatures reached an

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July 2023 was the hottest month recorded to date

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Most humans felt the scorching touch of climate change in July.

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded, and climate change made the elevated temperatures across 51 percent of Earth’s land surface at least five times more likely, according to a study released August 2 by Climate Central.

Researchers had already spotlighted the fingerprint of climate change on recent heat waves in China, North America and Europe (SN: 7/19/23; SN: 7/25/23). But the new report shows

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July 2023 expected to be hottest month ever recorded – EURACTIV.com

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July 2023 has broken multiple temperature records and is expected to be the hottest month ever recorded, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation and EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The first weeks of July were the warmest three-week period on record and it is “virtually certain” the month will be the hottest July ever recorded and the hottest month ever recorded “by a significant margin”, the organisations said in a joint statement on Thursday (27 July).

These high temperatures

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How bad are Europe’s wildfires? Experts reveal how blazes tearing through Greece are the most intense and toxic EVER recorded in July – here’s how to stay safe

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Ferocious wildfires have inflicted devastating damage across southern Europe and forced thousands of people to flee for their lives.

But just how bad are they in comparison to previous years?

It’s important to point out that this is ‘prime fire season’ for the Mediterranean and that such natural disasters are not unusual because of its ‘especially flammable’ landscape.

The region’s climate is the only one in the world with mild wet winters which allow vegetation to grow, and dry, hot

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More than 20,000 excess deaths were recorded in Western Europe during the summer’s heatwaves

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More than 20,000 excess deaths were recorded in France, Germany, Spain and the UK during this summer’s heatwaves, a new report has revealed.

Excess deaths are the number of deaths beyond what would have been expected under ‘normal’ conditions based on historical data, and from all causes.

This summer was Europe’s hottest in recorded history, as heatwaves and a long-running drought meant the previous high was exceeded by 0.7°F (0.4°C).

The UK also felt temperatures of over 104°F (40°C) for

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Just FIVE more virus fatalities recorded in England and Wales last week despite cases having doubled

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Covid deaths in England and Wales remain below 25 per day despite infections having almost doubled over the past month, Government data shows.

Advocates of No10’s strategy, which saw the final pandemic-era restrictions axed in April, have hailed the figures as more proof that the darkest days of the pandemic are over and that new economically-damaging curbs aren’t needed. 

Yet critics of the approach have already called for a return of mask wearing and for Brits to avoid meeting indoors

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US smashes COVID record with 1.486m new cases recorded on Monday but just 1,906 new deaths

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The US hit a record 1,485,764 new COVID cases on Monday, though deaths climbed by a relatively low 12 percent to 1,906 as fear turns to hope that the worst of the Omicron variant may have passed.

Cases rose by 27 percent from the 1.171 million new cases recorded last Monday, January 3 – the prior one day record. That was also the first time that daily cases have passed the one million mark. Deaths this week increased by 12

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GP consultations held over the phone are being falsely recorded as ‘face to face’

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Even fewer face-to-face GP appointments are being held than feared because some phone consultations are wrongly getting recorded as taking place in-person, it was revealed today.

Official NHS statistics are recording some GP telephone and online consultations with patients as actually being held face-to-face due to the way appointments are booked.

Statistics from NHS Digital show that only 58 per cent of GP appointments in England held in August, the latest available data, were held face-to-face.

This is well below

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