NASA Study: Summer 2024 Breaks The Hotst Record

Illustration of the sun's heat in summer (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA The increase in temperature has continued to occur every month since last year so that Earth has set a new record. NASA announced that August this year will be the hottest month since the 1880 listing.

Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), a laboratory under NASA, also combined temperatures in July, June, and August to find out the average temperature this summer. As expected, the temperature has increased.

Calculation data shows that this summer saw an increase in temperatures by 0.1 degrees Celsius globally. This increase makes summer 2024 the summer with the highest temperature NASA has ever recorded.

This summer's temperature has also surpassed last summer. Overall, the temperature has increased to 1.25 degrees Celsius compared to the average from 1951 to 1980.

"Data from various recordkeepers suggests that warming in the last two years may be very tight, but much higher than anything seen in previous years, including the powerful El way of years," said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

According to Schmidt, these findings are clear evidence of climate warming. What's more, this record hot temperature was not only found by researchers at NASA, but also found by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Union's Climate Change Service.

This heat record was discovered after NASA created a GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) using air temperature data originating from thousands of meteorological stations. GISTEMP also uses sea surface temperature from ship instruments.

After taking temperature data from various technologies, GISTEMP's analysis calculates non-absolute temperature anomalies. This anomaly also shows that temperatures on Earth have experienced storage from an average of 1951 to 1980.