“If you look at the long term, global warming processes continue to develop <...> the main reason for the frequent extremely high temperature events in China and around the world this year,” the expert noted.
Earlier, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt, in turn, said that July is likely to be the hottest month on Earth for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
The Guardian, in turn, noted that due to the abnormal heat, the food security of the entire world was in jeopardy.