Nigeria, April 12 -- The European Union's Climate Change Monitoring Service has described March 2024 as the tenth consecutive hottest month on record globally since the pre-industrial revolution began.

The latest findings were made known in the monthly Climate Bulletin of the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) published on Tuesday.

"March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the hottest for the respective month in the ERA5 data record, going back to 1940," the C3S said.

It noted that the global oceans have seen 12 consecutive months of record high surface temperatures and that the global surface air temperature for March was 14.14degC, representing about 0.73degC above the 1991-2020 average for March, and 0.10degC above the...