It’s boiling, says Antonio Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations. UN chief Guterres, quoting scientists, blames humans for the earth apparently reaching its boiling point. The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived,” he says, with hyperbole. • Global average sea surface temperatures continued to rise, after a long period of unusually high temperatures since April 2023, reaching record high levels in July. • For July 2023 as a whole, global average sea surface temperatures were 0.51°C above the 1991-2020 average.
