April marks the 11th consecutive month that global temperatures have broken records

This month was also the first April when the average global temperature was above 15 degrees Celsius, according to data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

According to Carlo Buontempo, head of C3S, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases “will continue to push global temperatures towards new records”.

The average surface air temperature in April was 15.03 degrees Celsius, 0.67 degrees Celsius above the April average from 1991 to 2020, the service said Wednesday.

In Europe, April was 1.49 degrees Celsius warmer than the comparison period. According to the European Environment Agency (EAA), Europe is warming the fastest of all continents.

Compared to the pre-industrial reference period from 1850 by 1900, April was 1.58 degrees Celsius warmer globally, the report said.

Average global temperature for the period from 2023 May until 2024 April is the highest since data collection began and is 1.61 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.

But this does not mean that the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius stipulated in the Paris Agreement has been exceeded, because for this purpose longer-term average values ​​are used. If temperature trends of the past 30 years continue, this will happen in 2033, C3S recently wrote.