The month’s average global temperature was 16.61C. In addition, a report from earlier this month has revealed that humanity has already used up nature’s resources for this year, a rate that happened faster than in previous years.
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Nine of the 10 warmest months have occurred since 2005, while the first seven months of 2015 were the warmest such period on record, according to the NOAA report. World Likely Headed for Warmest Year as Well. But, warmer nights brought the overall July temperature to just 7-tenths-of-a-degree below normal. Not to mention, last January was the second warmest January on record, and last April was the third warmest. And the weirdness shows no sign of slowing down as drought-stricken California prepares for the “Godzilla” El Niño expected to hit this fall.
“The biggest driver of this, I think, is El Nino”.
On the opposite side of the world, ice in the Antarctic Sea covered 3.8 percent more than the 1981-2010 average, the fourth largest expanse on record. And an Iranian city had a heat index (the “feels like” temperature) of 165 degrees, which was still not quite record.
Scientists said global climate change and a boost this year from an El Nino warming of the Pacific Ocean were behind the record temperatures.
Record keeping started in 1880.
Breaking it down, the land temperature globally was 1.73 degrees Fahrenheit higher than average, making it the sixth warmest July on land.
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“This is consistent with the Met Office’s global temperature forecast which predicted that a record or near record year is very much on the cards for 2015”.
