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Last month marked the third warmest July on record globally, with a notable peak in Turkiye reaching 50.5°C (122.9°F), according to scientists on Thursday. The ongoing trend of extreme weather patterns continues, attributed to human-induced climate change, despite a brief pause in record-breaking temperatures nationwide.
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported that the average global surface air temperature in July was 16.68°C, which is 0.45°C above the 1991–2020 average for the same month. Carlo Buontempo, C3S director, stated, “Two years after July’s record heat, the recent streak of global temperature highs has paused—for now. However, this doesn’t mean climate change has halted. We still see its impacts through events like severe heatwaves and devastating floods in July.”
While not matching the extreme temperatures of July 2023 or the second-warmest July 2024, Earth’s surface temperature last month was still 1.25°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), the period when large-scale fossil fuel combustion began. The 12-month span from August 2024 to July 2025 was 1.53°C warmer than pre-industrial times, surpassing the 1.5°C threshold established by the Paris Agreement, which was adopted in 2016 to limit global warming.
The primary driver of climate change remains the release of greenhouse gases linked to burning fossil fuels. Last year was recorded as the hottest on record globally. Although the world has yet to officially surpass the 1.5°C limit, many scientists believe remaining below that level is increasingly unlikely. They are urging governments to accelerate efforts to cut CO2 emissions, aiming to reduce the severity of temperature overshoot and mitigate extreme weather phenomena.
Temperature records maintained by C3S date back to 1940 and are compared with global data stretching back to 1850.
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