To date, July 22, 2024, was the warmest day ever recorded on Earth, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). What’s more, over the last few decades, Europe has been warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, according to C3S director Carlo Buontempo. This is due to a combination of different factors, he said. One of them is that the Arctic, part of which is included in the institute’s definition of Europe, is probably one of the fastest warming regions in the world. Another reason is the loss of ice and snow in the mountains, as well as on t…