Last year was Europe’s hottest summer and the second warmest year on record, according to the ‘European State of the Climate’ report, published on Thursday 20 April by the European climate observation programme, Copernicus (C3S).
C3S data shows that the average temperature in Europe for the last five-year period was about 2.2°C higher than in the pre-industrial era (1850–1900) and that 2022 was 0.9°C higher than the average (1991–2020). This means that while globally the last...