In case you were still amongst the sect of people that claimed climate change was a myth, it has just been reported that July was Earth’s hottest month on record.
According to NBC News, data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday revealed that July was the hottest month in Earth’s recorded history. NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad released a statement describing the planet’s current situation.
“In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” Spinrad said. “July is typically the world’s warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded.”
A 2021 global surface temp map that NOA shared showed that the planet’s surface was 1.67°F above average, making July the hottest month in the planet’s history.
Asia recorded its hottest July on record, with the previous record being in 2010, and Europe had its second-hottest July on record. It tied its scorching July in 2010 and sits behind the July of 2018, more evidence of the Earth rapidly heating over the last few decades.
Spinrad added that this data is the most accurate depiction of how quickly the Earth’s climate is changing.
“Scientists from across the globe delivered the most up-to-date assessment of the ways in which the climate is changing,” Spinrad said. “It is a sobering IPCC report that finds that human influence is, unequivocally, causing climate change, and it confirms the impacts are widespread and rapidly intensifying.”
Earlier this week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called these reports a “code red for humanity,” saying that the “alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable.”
