European scientists make it official: July was the hottest month on record by far

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Copernicus Climate Change Service, a division of the European Union's space programme, announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth of a degree, so this margin is unusual. «These records have dire consequences for both people and the planet exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events,» said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.

There have been deadly heat waves in the Southwestern United States and Mexico, Europe and Asia. Scientific quick studies put the blame on human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Days in July have been hotter than previously recorded from July 2 onwards.

It's been so extra warm that Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organisation made the unusual early announcement that it was likely the hottest month days before it ended. Tuesday's calculations made it official. The month was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times.

In 2015, the nations of the world agreed to try to prevent long-term warming — not individual months or even years, but decades — that is 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times. Last month was so hot, it was .7 degrees Celsius (1.3 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the average July from 1991 to 2020, Copernicus said. The worlds oceans were half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous 30 years and the North Atlantic was 1.05 degrees Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than average.

Antarctica set record lows for sea ice, 15% below average for this time of year. Copernicus' records go back to 1940. That temperature would be hotter than any month the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has