“The first place is the worst here,” says Rick Spinrad, head of U.S. 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”
This new record “adds to the worrying and disturbing trajectory on which climate change has put the globe”, points out Rick Spinrad. The global temperature at the surface of the planet was higher by 0.01 ° C compared to the The warmest previous month of July was in 2016 (which was then tied with the months of 2019 and 2020). Readings began 142 years ago, NOAA said.
Last week the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union’s Earth Observation System, had previously reported that we were experiencing the third hottest month of July on record globally, tied with July 2020. And even the second month of July on hottest ever recorded in Europe. It is common for agencies to have small differences in their data.