July was the hottest month on Earth on record

“The first place is the worst here,” says Rick Spinrad, head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

In a press release this Friday, the American agency assures us that this month of July 2021 is "the hottest ever recorded on Earth" 

July is usually the hottest month of the year, but July 2021 has surpassed itself, becoming July and the hottest month on record.

Last week, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union's Earth observation satellite system, already reported that we are experiencing the third hottest month of July on record globally, tied with July 2020. And even the second hottest July on record in Europe.

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