July breaks record for Earth's hottest-ever month
July 2019 previously held the title of the hottest month ever recorded on Earth
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00:00 July was the warmest month on record according to the European Climate Change Monitoring Program, Copernicus.
00:07 The global temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average for 16 days this month
00:14 and 0.27 degrees warmer than the average for July between 1991 and 2020.
00:20 Records have also been broken for global ocean surface temperature and sea ice mass.
00:26 This is due to marine heat waves detected in southern Greenland and the Labrador Sea,
00:31 as well as in the Caribbean Basin and the Mediterranean.
00:35 After a long period of unusually high temperatures in April,
00:39 the ocean surface has continued to warm to more than 0.51 degrees Celsius above the 1991 to 2020 average in July.
00:48 At the same time, Antarctic sea ice extent reached 15% below average,
00:53 the lowest July extent since satellite observations began.
00:57 The warming is expected to worsen in the coming months due to the El Nino phenomenon.
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