This year in fact, countries around the world including India, the US, China, France, Italy, Germany and Spain had all suffered their own heatwaves before Taiwan's turn came. According to data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in June this year the average temperature of the global land mass rose 1.07oC above last century's measurement, a record since measurements commenced in 1880.
事實上，世界各地包括印度、美國、中國，以及法、義、德、西等歐洲國家，今年已早台灣一步遭受熱浪襲擊，根據美國海洋大氣總署的數據顯示，今年 6 月，全球陸地均溫較上一世紀飆高了 1.07 ℃，創下人類 1880 年紀錄氣溫以來的當月最高溫。