Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to keep long-term global average surface temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C by end of century.
Nevertheless, the rise in temperatures to this level in Aug is a stark warning that the world is getting warmer, with its consequences of extreme weather events, glacier melt, sea-level rise and uneven distribution of rainfall over a short period of time being visible across the globe."Until humanity stops burning colossal amount of coal, oil and gas, the pollution this causes will keep baking our planet, and extreme heat will keep smashing all-time records, killing millions and costing trillions, hitting transport and health systems, and pushing up prices for household basics like food," said UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell in his response to the report.Aug in India was the warmest Aug in the country since 1901, with a mean monthly temperature of 28.01°C.
