Yes, it’s hot out there thanks to global warming. NASA reports that last month was the hottest July on record.
That follows the hottest June on record, hottest May, April, March, February, and January. It’s almost like there is a pattern….
How hot was it last month? Parts of the Arctic and Antarctic averaged as high as 7.7°C (13.9°F) above average. No wonder we’ve seen records broken for the melting of the ice sheets and Arctic sea ice.
It was so hot that Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, tweeted, “July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began.”
Since we may now be entering a La Niña that temporarily cools part of the Pacific Ocean, we may not set any more monthly records this year. But Schmidt wants you to know that there’s “still 99% chance of a new annual record in 2016.”
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