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| Heat is dangerous |
- July 2020 tied with July 2016 as the second-hottest month ever recorded for the planet Earth.
- July 2020 also marked the 427th-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average
- Experts say this is a sure sign of human-caused climate change.
Last month was a scorcher worldwide.
July 2020 tied with July 2016 as the second-hottest month ever recorded for the planet Earth, according to a report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Only July 2019 was hotter, and only by a fraction of a degree.
"The
July 2020 global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.66
degrees
above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, tying with 2016 as the
second-highest temperature in the 141-year record," NOAA said. "Last
month was only 0.02 of a degree F shy of tying the record-hot July of
2019."
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| Heatwaves kill |
July 2020 also marked the
44th-consecutive July and the 427th-consecutive month with temperatures
above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA.
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| Heat kills |
Experts
say this is a sure sign of human-caused climate change:
"The trend of
record heat continues – a trend which we’ve shown in past publications can only be explained by the warming impact of fossil fuel burning," said Penn State University meteorologist Michael Mann."
Related: World's three hottest Julys happened in the last five years: Reuters (excerpt)
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