We have been report that the rising global temperature is transgress recordsmonthonmonthfor almost a year now , but July 2016 has just taken the cap . Not only is it the warmest July since record began , it is the absolute warmest month ever recorded since 1880 . And the disc - demolish trend currently show no sign of slowing .

The latest figures to havebeen exhaust by NASAshow that the calendar month of July was a full 0.84 ° C ( 1.51 ° atomic number 9 ) above norm for the calendar month , but more concerning than that is that last calendar month was also the hot ever on record , shattering the last record by a toasty 0.11 ° C ( 0.2 ° atomic number 9 ) . This thaw has keep despite the recent El Niño – which is call up to have boosted the past class ’s average temperature on top of the rise due to human - made mood variety – having already pass by its peak .

This means that going on NASA ’s data , July is thetenth calendar month in a rowto break the monthly norm , and with the spill of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) data tomorrow , is expected to come in at the fifteenth warm in a run-in based on their figures .

The differences seen between the two data set is down to both organization using a different baseline catamenia , yet despite this , they are still finding the same event : that the creation is retain to warm , and that there has been a dramatic and concerning uptick in the warming during this last year .

Not only that , but due to NASA having its baseline as the average temperature recorded between 1951 and 1980 , the data already includes a sure fate of warming from when mankind first started burning fossil fuel in the 1800s . This is call back to add around 0.5 ° blow ( 0.9 ° F ) of warming to Nasa ’s trope , mean that July wasactually around 1.3 ° C ( 2.34 ° F)warmer than world-wide temperatures in pre - industrial time .

The warming of the major planet , due mainly to the continual exit of CO2into the atmospheric state by humans , has led to the breaking of the sheer record book for the warmest month , but even this criminal record was only set last year , when July 2015 matched July 2011   temperature - wise . And the trend is not show signs of stopping . This has worried many climate scientists , who now think that the limit   agreed at the historic Paris Climate Summit of keep   global warming under 1.5 ° C ( 2.7 ° F)is effectively unachievableunless rapid and ultra action is taken now , something which seems to be lacking .