July was the HOTTEST month EVER recorded on earth in 140 years

As climate change ramps into high gear, global temperature records are being smashed left and right. July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

That's the word from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which tallied up global land and sea temperature recordings from 2019's seventh month and compared them to its 140-year data set, stretching back to 1880. The global average temperature for the month was 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit (0.95 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average of 60.4 F (15.8 C). It was 0.05 F (0.03 C) warmer than the previous record, set in July 2016.
This new global heat record shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who read the news last month. A punishing heat wave swept across Europe and then settled over Greenland, where it triggered hundreds of billions of tons of ice melt.
Sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions reached 41-year lows as well, according to NOAA.