Summer of 2024 confirmed earth’s hottest on record for second year in a row

Commenting on the news that scientists at Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service, have confirmed the summer of 2024 to be the hottest on record globally for the second year in a row, Maja Darlington, Campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: “Summer in Britain might be as capricious as ever, but the startling rise in global temperatures cannot be ignored. The world’s hottest summer ever has driven storms, floods and fires that have impacted millions from Arizona to Afghanistan, while oil and gas companies bank billions from the climate-wrecking fossil fuels that are accelerating the crisis.

“The new Labour government has promised to ban new oil and gas licenses: now it’s time to make the industry start paying its climate debts. The new Labour government should place bold new polluter taxes on fossil fuel companies to support communities facing the brunt of the climate crisis at home and abroad.”