You surely remember that This month we start talking about the hottest day in the world because there are records at the temperature of the Earth. According to the data, which, although official, was still awaiting verification, the average of our planet reached 17.01 degrees Celsius on Monday, July 3, surpassing the previous mark. But the thing is, just one day later, on Tuesday the 4th, we saw the record rise again, with 17.18 degrees that day.

As I pointed out at the time, 17.18 degrees might seem like a pretty low temperature for summer, right? Of course, but I must insist that we are talking about the diameter of the planet, that is, it includes measurements in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemisphere, at the poles, at the level of the seas and oceans… This, of course, completely changes the picture and suggests that the situation is actually much more dangerous than it might seem at first glance.

Despite this, it seems we don’t go beyond good intentions, statements of future plans and half-commitments, i.e. those that are never fulfilled. And in the meantime, we have already begun to feel on our own skin and in our lives the terrifying effects of global warming, an increasingly hot planet that affects entire ecosystems, human activities, the survival of many species… the list is endless.

Well, today we have a new signal, one more that shows the direction we are going. So as we can read in The New York Times, The US NOAA has confirmed that June was the warmest month on record since records began, which go back roughly 150 years. Obviously, given its origin, the information provided focuses primarily on the United States, but experience has taught us that the data can be extrapolated.

So June was the hottest month on record, the hottest day on record happened in the same month of July, and to further improve the situation, the NOAA forecast suggests that the trend will continue during the month of August, so that the record may not be broken again, but that we can expect unusually high temperatures. And probably when this summer is over, some scientists are telling us that next summer will be even worse. They already did last year… and they were right.