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Summer of 2024 the hottest ever recorded, says EU climate monitor

California suffered a heatwave in early September © ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP

Paris (AFP) – The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures on record, beating 2023's high and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever recorded, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.

The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change.

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