This summer saw the highest temperatures ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, reinforcing predictions that 2024 may become Earth’s hottest year yet, according to the European Union’s climate authority. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced on Friday that, after months of severe heatwaves globally, experts attributed these records to human-driven climate shifts. Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of C3S, explained, “In the last quarter of 2024, we’ve witnessed the hottest