This July was the third warmest in the history of weather observations. The average global temperature of the air near the ground this month reached 16.68°C, which is 0.45°C higher than the average for July between 1991 and 2020, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
According to Carlo Buontempo, director of the C3S, the recent streak of record global temperatures has come to an end, but despite the pause, extreme weather conditions were observed last month. He noted that climate change has not stopped, as evidenced by the extreme heat and catastrophic floods in July.
Last month’s average global surface temperature was not as hot as in 2023 and 2024, but it was 1.25°C above the pre-industrial average for the period from 1850 to 1900.
In addition, a record temperature of 50.5°C was recorded in Turkey last month.
From August 2024 to July 2025, the earth’s temperature was 1.53 degrees warmer than in the pre-industrial era. This is above the 1.5-degree threshold that countries around the world considered the maximum allowable under the Paris Agreement. Sustained temperature increases mean that extreme heat, droughts, floods and other climate disasters will occur more frequently and with greater intensity.
According to scientists from the C3S and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is now almost impossible to keep warming within 1.5 degrees, and to mitigate the consequences, greenhouse gas emissions must be drastically reduced, especially from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
