The Earth is heating up at an increasing rate, and has seen global record highs for every month of the past year, according to two major new reports on climate change. May was the 12th consecutive month in which the global average temperature reached a record value for the respective month, the EU’s climate change service Copernicus announced on Wednesday. Another report the same day revealed that man-made global warming has recently increased faster than at any time since records based on readings from scientific instruments began in the 19th century. In the past decade alone (2014 to 2023), …