Hottest April for the world continues global temperature record streak

The average global air temperature last month was 15.03C — 0.67C above the 1991 to 2020 average for April and 0.14C above the previous record set in April 2016. Picture: AP Photo/Eric Gay, File

The energy being trapped in the world’s oceans and atmosphere by ever-increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases will see global temperature records continually broken in the near future, climate scientists have warned.

According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), last month was the warmest April on record and the 11th consecutive month in which all-time temperature records tumbled for a respective month of the year.