July 2019: it was the hottest month ever recorded globally

2019-08-05T13:54:38.976Z

July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded in the world. The Copernicus climate change service revealed it. "While July is usually the hottest month of the world for the world, according to our data it was also the hottest month globally," said director, Jean-Noel Thepaut. "With the continuous emissions of greenhouse gases and the consequent impact on global temperatures, the records will continue to be beaten in the future". The heatwave has seen record numbers across Europe last month, with unusually high temperatures even at the Arctic Circle. Copernicus reported that average temperatures in this past month have risen from 1981 to 2010 in Alaska, Greenland, Siberia, Central Asia, Iran and large parts of Antarctica. Even Africa and Australia have recorded higher than average temperatures. On a global level, July 2019 was slightly warmer - 0.04 degrees Celsius (0.072 Fahrenheit) - compared to the month before the record recorded in the same month of 2016 which was already very significant, because in that year there was El Nino , a climatic phenomenon that causes the warming of the waters of the Pacific and consequently a rise in temperatures, beyond the impact of global warming. "There have always been hot summers. But this is not the summer of our youth. It is not the summer of our grandparents," said the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterrese, days ago. "If we do nothing about climate change now, these extreme weather events will be the tip of the iceberg. The iceberg is rapidly melting."