Last year's temperature records continue in Europe. Why is this so? And what role does climate change play? In 2023, Europe sweated: eleven months of one temperature record followed another. The temperature trend from 2023 could therefore continue this year, data from the German meteorological service recently showed. This applies to the global average temperature, but even more so to the European continent. Temperatures there have risen twice as much as the global value: almost 0.05 degrees per year since the beginning of the 1990s. (Christine Leitner, more at stern.de)