The European climate monitoring organization, Copernicus Climate Change Service, has made it official: July 2023 was Earth&s hottest month on record by a wide margin.July&s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius was a third of a degree Celsius higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday.

Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth of a degree, so this margin is unusual, Associated Press reported.The United States is now at a record 15 different weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.

It&s the most mega-disasters through the first seven months of the year since the agency tracked such things starting in 1980, with the agency adjusting figures for inflation.&These records have dire consequences for both people and the planet exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events,& said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.There have been deadly heat waves in the Southwestern United States and Mexico, Europe and Asia.

Scientific quick studies put the blame on human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.The previous single-day heat record was set in 2016 and tied in 2022.

From July 3, each day has exceeded that record.

It&s been so warm that Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization made the unusual announcement that it was likely the hottest month days before it ended.

Tuesday&s calculations made it official.&We should not care about July because it&s a record, but because it won&t be a record for long,& said Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto.

&It&s an indicator of how much we have changed the climate.

We are living in a very different world, one that our societies are not adapted to live in very well.&The global average temperature last month was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times.

In 2015, the nations of the world agreed to try to prevent long-term warming — not individual months or even years, but decades — that is 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times.Last month was so hot, it was .7 degrees Celsius hotter than the average July from 1991 to 2020, Copernicus said.

The world&s oceans were half a degree Celsius warmer than the previous 30 years and the North Atlantic was 1.05 degrees Celsius hotter than average.

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