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With millions of people across five continents experiencing scorching heat last month, the European Union's (EU) climate agency, Copernicus <keyword id="19907392" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="climate-change" source="keywords">Climate Change</keyword> Service (C3S), confirmed on Monday that June was the warmest on record. It also marked the 12th consecutive month of <keyword id="20524196" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="global-temperatures" source="keywords">global temperatures</keyword> reaching <keyword id="22325521" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="1-5-degrees-Celsius" source="keywords">1.5 degrees Celsius</keyword> above the pre-industrial average. According to scientists at C3S, every month since June last year has been the warmest such month on record. In January, the world completed an entire year with the mean surface air temperature exceeding the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold. June was the 12th consecutive month with monthly average temperatures above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. At the 2015 UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders committed to limiting the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. However, a permanent breach of the 1.5-degree Celsius limit specified in the <keyword id="20104670" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paris-Agreement" source="keywords">Paris Agreement</keyword> refers to long-term warming over a 20 or 30-year period. Earth's global surface temperature has already increased by around 1.2 degrees Celsius compared to the average in 1850-1900 due to the rapidly-increasing concentration of <keyword id="20649149" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="greenhouse-gases" source="keywords">greenhouse gases</keyword> -- primarily carbon dioxide and methane -- in the atmosphere. This warming is considered to be the reason behind record droughts, wildfires and floods worldwide. According to new data, June 2024 was the warmest on record, with an average surface air temperature of 16.66 degrees Celsius, 0.67 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average for the month and 0.14 degrees Celsius above the previous high set in June 2023. "The month was 1.5 degrees Celsius above the estimated June average for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period, making it the 12th consecutive month to reach or break the 1.5-degree threshold," C3S said in a statement. It was also the 13th consecutive month of <keyword id="21477127" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="record-high-temperatures" source="keywords">record-high temperatures</keyword>, a result of the combined effect of the 2023-24 El Nino event and human-caused climate change. While unusual, a similar streak of monthly global temperature records happened previously in 2015-16. "This is more than a statistical oddity and highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate. Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm. This is inevitable, unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans," said Carlo Buontempo, the director of C3S. The European climate agency said the global average temperature for the last 12 months (July 2023-June 2024) is the highest on record, at 0.76 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average and 1.64 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The world's sea surface in June was also the highest ever recorded for the month. Several countries experienced record-breaking heat and devastating floods and storms in June. According to an analysis by Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators based in the United States, more than 60 per cent of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more likely by climate change during June 16-24. Climate Central said the blistering heat in June impacted 619 million (61.9 crore) people in India, 579 million (57.9 crore) in China, 231 million (23.1 crore) in Indonesia, 206 million (20.6 crore) in Nigeria, 176 million (17.6 crore) in Brazil, 171 million (17.1 crore) in Bangladesh, 165 million (16.5 crore) in the US, 152 million (15.2 crore) in Europe, 123 million (12.3 crore) in Mexico, 121 million (12.1 crore) in Ethiopia and 103 million (10.3 crore) in Egypt. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), northwest India recorded its warmest June since 1901. India, which experienced one of its hottest and longest heatwaves, recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases and over 100 heat-related deaths. The intense heat overwhelmed the water supply system and power grids, with Delhi grappling with a severe water crisis. According to the IMD, 11 states recorded 20 to 38 heatwave days -- up to four times the usual number of such days -- during the April-to-June period. The mercury breached 50 degrees Celsius in parts of Rajasthan, with night temperatures hovering around 35 degrees Celsius in many places. Temperatures were most above average over eastern Canada, the western United States and Mexico, Brazil, northern Siberia, the Middle East, northern Africa, and western Antarctica. 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June warmest on record; every month since July 2023 breached 1.5 deg C threshold

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Australia just recorded its hottest day on record with an average temperature of 40.9 C across the country- a rise on the last record from 2013 at 40.3 C. </li><li>Meteorologists warned that temperatures will increase further in the coming days, and issued <a href="https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1207128438554783746">a health warning</a> for people living in the country.</li><li>The record-breaking heatwave comes in the context of a difficult year in Australia that saw devastating bush fires ravage the country, and the "longest" and "most widespread" air quality <a href="https://www.insider.com/sydney-smoke-bush%20fires-causes-climate-change-2019-12">on record.</a></li><li>2019 has been marked by a series of extreme weather events, including a record-breaking <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/08/europe/france-heat-wave-deaths-intl-hnk-scli/index.html">heatwave in France</a>, unusually <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dog-sled-melted-greenland-sea-ice-2019-6?bcmt=1&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T">warm temperatures</a> in Greenland, and an <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/eye-of-the-storm/a-review-of-the-atlantic-hurricane-season-of-2019/">intense hurricane season</a> in the US, which featured the strongest hurricane ever recorded.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. </a></li></ul>Australia recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, as the average temperature across the country peaked at 40.9 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) - an increase from the previous record of 40.3 C (104 F) in January 2013. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday that temperatures are set to intensify further in the coming days, and warned of a heightened danger of fires across the country as result."We're expecting large areas of inland South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to experience temperatures in the mid to high 40s," said Sarah Scully, a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology <a href="http://media.bom.gov.au/releases/728/media-release-several-days-of-significant-heat-for-southeastern-australia/">in a statement.</a>The record breaking heatwave comes in the context of difficult year in Australia that saw devastating bush fires ravage the country, and the "longest" and "most widespread" poor air quality on record.Extreme weather has plagued much of the planet in 2019, with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-heat-wave-cause-high-pressure-weather-system-2019-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">Europe battling a record breaking heat wave in June and July</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/hurricane-dorian?r=US&amp;IR=T">the strongest hurricane in recorded history</a> hitting the Caribbean in late August and early September, to name just two.Some other extreme weather conditions around the world this year include: <ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dog-sled-melted-greenland-sea-ice-2019-6?bcmt=1&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T">Unusually warm temperatures</a> in Greenland - 10 C (50 F) warmer than the years before, which have led to ice melting in the country. </li><li>Torrential rain and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-landslide-picture-scenes-deadly-rain-flood-2018-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">devastating floods</a> in Japan that killed at least 90 people. </li><li>An intense hurricane season in the US which saw 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, 3 intense hurricanes - figures said to be <a href="http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/">above average according to data</a> from Colorado State University. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-dorian-victims-death-toll-2019-9">That was capped by Hurricane Dorian,</a> which became the strongest hurricane ever recorded before it made landfall in early September.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-heatwave-france-germany-spain-dangerous-temperature-2019-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">Record high temperatures of 45.9 C (114.6 F) in France in July</a>.</li></ul>The Bureau of Meteorology in Australia issued a health warning to people, with the heatwave conditions and smoke from the fires expected to have a "large impact on people's health." Dr Blair Trewin, a climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/bomtransfer/misc/BOM_Video_News_Release_20191216_BlairTrewin.mp4">said temperatures will reach extreme numbers</a> on Wednesday and Thursday, and are expected to reach at least a degree higher than the previous record from 2013 which stood at 40.3 C until Tuesday.Trewin said scientists are expecting to also see record temperatures for the month of December as the extreme heatwave continues. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.my/photos-videos-sydney-blanket-of-smoke-bushfires-2019-11/">13 photos show Sydney under a blanket of smoke as bushfires continue to ravage the region</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-woman-saves-crying-koala-bear-from-fire-in-australia-2019-11">Video shows a heroic Australian woman brave raging flames to save a badly wounded, crying koala from a bushfire</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sydney-smoke-bushfires-causes-climate-change-2019-12">Sydney looks like a smoke-drenched apocalyptic nightmare. It's all because of a 'perfect storm' of factors.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/australian-koala-hospital-port-macquarie-1-million-fundraiser-bushfire-rescue-2019-11">An Australian koala hospital raised more than $1 million to help rescue native animals injured in the devastating wildfires roaring across the country</a></li></ul>

Australia just recorded its hottest day in history, capping a year of extreme temperatures around the world

Good morning! Welcome back to <keyword id="10669910" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="10-things-in-politics">10 Things in Politics</keyword>. I'm Brent Griffiths. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox each day.</a>Send your tips and thoughts to <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a> or tweet me<a href="https://twitter.com/BrentGriffiths"> @BrentGriffiths</a>.Here's what you need to know:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stimulus-democrats-efforts-approve-biden-rescue-plan-within-month-march-2021-2">Democrats are ready to ram through Biden's stimulus plan</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/us-power-outages-winter-storm-temperatures-maps-stats-2021-2">Millions remain without power during winter storms</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-2021-speakers-trump-pence-orlando-republican-conservative-2021-2">What a key conservative event shows about the GOP civil war</a></li></ul>1. BIDEN GOES BIG AWAY FROM HOME: President Joe Biden isn't reducing his $1.9 trillion relief plan. Pitching his proposal during a prime-time town hall, Biden argued that now is not the time to be timid."Now is the time we should be spending. Now is the time to go big," the president told Wisconsinites in his first major trip outside of DC. Biden said that a smaller stimulus during the Great Recession complicated the recovery then.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-stimulus-plan-gop-voters-congress-republicans-democrats-lawmakers-2021-2">Republicans aren't so sure</a>. Right now, the counteroffer from a group of GOP senators stands at $618 billion. Many Republicans simply reject the argument that now is the time for massive spending. <ul><li> What this means: Unless something changes, Biden's package could pass with scant or no bipartisan support.</li><li>Key quote: "This is ten times too big," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-leaning American Action Forum told Insider. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-stimulus-plan-gop-voters-congress-republicans-democrats-lawmakers-2021-2">Read the GOP counterpunch here</a>. </li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stimulus-democrats-efforts-approve-biden-rescue-plan-within-month-march-2021-2">Democrats are still ready to ram this through</a>. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said a full vote on the proposal could come next week. <ul><li>The rest of the calendar: Next up would be the Senate, where Democrats are relying on Vice President Harris' tie-breaking vote. If amendments are passed, the House could send the bill to Biden the week of March 8. The Senate would also need to thread the bill through the difficult procedure of budget reconciliation, which could well kill a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. </li></ul>He who shall not be named: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-says-hes-tired-of-talking-about-the-former-guy-trump-2021-2">Biden went to great lengths to avoid talking about former President Donald Trump</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-says-hes-tired-of-talking-about-the-former-guy-trump-2021-2">.</a> At one point, he called Trump "the former guy" and later simply offered "I'm tired of talking about Donald Trump."2. An upcoming event shows the GOP's civil war is just beginning: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-2021-speakers-trump-pence-orlando-republican-conservative-2021-2">The first big post-election Republican event has a very MAGA feel</a>. Donald Trump Jr. and lawmakers who endorsed the debunked theory that Trump won the presidential election are set to speak at CPAC.Meanwhile, top officials like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are absent. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-2021-speakers-trump-pence-orlando-republican-conservative-2021-2">Read the full report to see how Trump's grip on the GOP is going nowhere fast.</a>MAP: <a href="https://www.insider.com/us-power-outages-winter-storm-temperatures-maps-stats-2021-2">See where millions of Americans were left without power</a>.<a href="https://www.insider.com/us-power-outages-winter-storm-temperatures-maps-stats-2021-2"><div type="image" title="map" height="900" width="1800" msid="81054274" hostid="261"></div></a>3. Nearly 4 million Americans were without power amid bitterly cold temperatures: Some Texans are being told that <a href="https://www.insider.com/austin-houston-energy-providers-say-outages-may-continue-texas-2021-2">they should not expect power to return even into Wednesday</a>. At least 10 people have died in the state as the Texas Tribune reports some residents are living out of their cars or <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texans-weather-power-outage/">burning personal belongings to stay warm</a>. <ul><li>Twisting in the wind: Gov. Greg Abbot (R) went on Fox News last night to further a budding conservative theory that renewable energy and the Green New Deal are to blame for Texas' woes. But <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-a-majority-of-lost-power-generation-has-been-from-fossil-fuels-2021-2">frozen wind turbines aren't the main problem</a>. </li></ul>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York also <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1361903282667589634?s=20">shot back last night</a>:<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1361903282667589634?s=20"><div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2021 02 17 at 12.11.26 AM" height="360" width="1194" msid="81054275" hostid="261"></div></a><ul><li>Many Texas Republicans are also confronting past statements gleefully trolling California: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-responds-to-past-tweet-mocking-california-amid-texas-storm-2021-2">Sen. Ted Cruz and other top officials</a> needled California last summer when rolling blackouts plagued the state during an extreme heatwave and wildfires.</li></ul><div type="image" title="Trump McConnell" height="1333" width="1777" msid="81054277" hostid="261"></div>4. Trump rips into McConnell: "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-breaks-with-mcconnell-calls-him-dour-sullen-unsmiling-hack-2021-2">A dour, sullen, unsmiling political hack"</a> - that's what the former president called the Senate's top Republican in his longest statement since leaving office. The blistering statement <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-scathing-letter-to-mcconnell-could-have-been-nastier-report-2021-2">could have reportedly been even more personal</a> as Trump decided not to include a jab about "multiple chins."<ul><li>"I'm more worried about 2022 than I've ever been. I don't want to eat our own," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to Fox News' Sean Hannity. </li></ul>5. Biden firmly rejected $50,000 in student debt forgiveness: The president reiterated his support for forgiving $10,000 in student loans, but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-rejects-democratic-plan-student-loan-debt-2021-2">soundly rejected a proposal</a> put forth by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others saying he could unilaterally wipe out $50,000 in debt for every American. <ul><li>Other town hall takeaways: Biden said a COVID-19 vaccine will be available to all Americans by July but was cagey on promising when shots will go into arms. The president listed "next Christmas" as when more normalcy will return but cautioned that wasn't a firm commitment either.</li></ul>6. The top things for your calendar, all times Eastern:<ul><li>12:30 p.m.: Jen Psaki holds the White House's daily news briefing. A top cybersecurity official will join her.</li><li>3:30 p.m.: Biden and Vice President Harris meet with labor leaders to discuss the stimulus plan.</li></ul>7. Two Republican senators want to increase the minimum wage: Mitt Romney of Utah and Tom Cotton of Arkansas say they will introduce a bill that will "gradually increase" the federal standard that has been $7.25 since 2009. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-sens-mitt-romney-tom-cotton-propose-increasing-minimum-wage-2021-2">They did not reveal a number</a>, but vowed their proposal would come "without costing jobs," and would require employers to verify the immigration status of their workers.8. May 1 deadline looms over potential Afghanistan withdrawal: Biden will soon face a decision over <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-taliban.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage">the future of America's longest war</a>. Per The New York Times, Biden has yet to make up his mind on the remaining 2,500 American troops, which per a Trump-era agreement must all be withdrawn by that date.9. A judge dismissed charges against Amy Cooper: <a href="https://www.insider.com/charges-dropped-against-amy-cooper-falsely-reported-birdwatcher-911-call-2021-2">A Manhattan judge dismissed charges against Cooper</a> after she completed a racial bias therapy program following her viral incident last year when she falsely reported Christian Cooper, who is Black, to police. For his part, Cooper told CNN that the focus should be on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/us/amy-cooper-birdwatching-charge/index.html">larger issues like D.C. statehood</a>. 10. Not your average Schitt's hole: The megamansion the Rose family called home during the pilot of "Schitt's Creek" is very real and boasts 12 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms. <a href="https://www.insider.com/schitts-creek-mansion-from-pilot-for-sale-photos-2021-2#named-la-belle-mansion-the-sprawling-24000-square-foot-property-is-perfect-for-royalty-or-at-least-schitts-creek-royalty-1">It can be yours for nearly $12 million</a>.One last thing.Today's trivia question: Today's question comes from Jeff Anderson. Which president unveiled new uniforms for White House guards only to spark wide ridicule that compared the outfits to movie ushers and the garb worn in a "banana republic"? Email your response and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a><ul><li>Yesterday's answer: FDR gave Camp David its original name Shangri-La as an ode to the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon." President Eisenhower <a href="https://www.history.com/news/how-did-camp-david-gets-its-name">renamed the presidential retreat after his grandson</a>, explaining in a letter to a friend "Shangri-La was just a little fancy for a Kansas farm boy."</li></ul>

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