July was the hottest month on Earth on record – News

New global data released by the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, for its acronym in English) was released on Friday indicating that July became the hottest month on record in Earth’s history.

The announcement comes four days after the United Nations (UN) issued an alarming report on the urgent threat of climate change and when California faces the Dixie Fire, the second largest fire in state history, the agency reported. ANSA.

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“In this case, the first place is the worst place,” said NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad, who also acknowledged that “July is generally the hottest month of the year in the world,” but warned that “July 2021 surpassed itself as July and the hottest months on record”.

According to his reflection, this record “adds to the worrying path that climate change has blazed for the world”.

The report published by the agency under the United States Department of Commerce detailed that worldwide, the combined temperature of the earth’s and ocean’s surface in the world was about 7 degrees centigrade above average 20th century, making July the hottest month since record keeping began 142 years ago.

In the northern hemisphere, Earth’s surface temperature was the highest on record in July with 13 degrees Celsius above average, breaking the previous record set in 2012.

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The effects of climate change have been altering the planet in ways unprecedented for thousands of years, in some cases hundreds of thousands of years, according to the UN report.

The organization’s general secretary, Antonio Guterres, described these temperatures as a “red code for humanity”.

“The alarms are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable,” he concluded.