NASA: July 2023 Likely to Be World's Hottest Month on Record

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Facts

  • Top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt has stated that this July may be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years" as unprecedented heat waves are recorded in China, Europe, and the US.1
  • The director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies made this warning on Thursday during a meeting that gathered climate experts and other leaders, including NASA administrator Bill Nelson and chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin.2
  • Schmidt further claimed that the heating trend is mostly related to human emissions of greenhouse gases, asserting that the El Niño weather pattern cannot take much blame for it as it has only just emerged.3
  • This comes as a wave of extreme heat, wildfires, downpours, and flooding inflicted devastating damage across the world in recent days, with the World Health Organization stressing that high temperatures have also strained healthcare systems.4
  • According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the first two weeks of July were most likely the warmest two-week period on record, with July 6 being the hottest day Earth has experienced since at least 1979 and possibly before that.5
  • Previously, the record for the hottest day on Earth had been broken successively on July 3 and July 4 as the global average temperature reached 62.92 F and 62.62 F, respectively.6

Sources: 1Daily Mail, 2Guardian, 3Washington Post, 4Al Jazeera, 5New York Times, and 6Forbes.

Narratives

  • Left narrative, as provided by The New Republic. July 2023 is on the verge of breaking heat records globally and surpassing June as the hottest month on record, which depending on the source, spans back to four and eight decades — or even 125K years. While El Niño partially contributes to this trend, it's humans who are essentially driving global temperatures up through fossil fuel and carbon emissions. Without dramatic changes, the heat will only intensify.
  • Right narrative, as provided by Townhall. It's summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, and it's hot, exactly as it should be. Yet, liberal global warming alarmists are now weaponizing high temperatures by absurdly claiming that Earth is at the hottest point in human history and focusing on places that have always been hot, such as Death Valley and Phoenix.

Predictions