The Most Hot Month of July

The month of July this year was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. This conclusion has reached European organisations monitoring the climate, Copernicus.

According to the latest data, July was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than in the pre-industrial era.

The average global temperature of July was 16,95 degrees Celsius, and according to data 0.43 degrees higher than the preliminary record registered in July 2019.

The Climate Change Service, a branch of the European Union's spatial programme, says that global temperature records normally break down by hundreds or a tenth of the scale, but this difference is unusual.

The first month of July “has had two extreme temperature events. And at that time, the Climate Change Service referred to this as the highest temperature ever recorded. Now we can say that not only was the first week of July the warmest ever recorded, but the three weeks of July were the hottest registered and the abnormality regarding previous record temperature for July is so high that we can say it is the highest temperature ever recorded in July”, says Carlo Buontompo, of the Climate Change Service, Copernicus.

Experts say these temperatures will have serious consequences for both people and the planet exposed to increasingly frequent and intense extreme events.

Data published by the Climate Change Service indicates that the previous month was as hot as 0.7 degrees Celsius more than the July average from 1991 to 2020.

The oceans of the world were half a degree warmer than the previous 30 years, and the North Atlantic Ocean was 1,05 degrees Celsius warmer than the average.

Antarctica set record levels for sea ice -- 15% below average for this period of year.

“is an amazing record and makes it quite clear that July is the warmest month on Earth in ten thousand years,” says Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany.

Mr. Rahstorf quotes studies using tree rings and other indicators, and he feels that the times are warmer since the beginning of the Holocaust era some 10,000 years ago.

All this information seems to have forced UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to declare:

The climate change is here. It's scary and it's just the beginning. The era of global warming is over. The era of global consumption has arrived. ”