Read how July 2019 made history as the hottest month on earth

July 2019 beat July 2016 to emerge as the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, a leading climate change institute has reported.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said data showed that last July’s global temperature was marginally higher than the previous record-holder three years ago when the planet had experienced an El Nino warming event.

“July is usually the warmest month of the year for the globe, according to our data.

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“It is also the warmest month recorded globally by a very small margin,’’ said Jean-Noel Thepault, Head of C3S, Brussels.

“With continued greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting impact on global temperatures, records will continue to be broken in the future,’’ Thepault said.

According to C3S, July is close to 0.56 degrees Celsius above average for the 30-year period between 1981 and 2010.

“It was also close to 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial level, as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

“The month of June was also the hottest in Europe and worldwide since records began more than a century ago,” said C3S.

Copernicus is the Earth observation programme of the European Union (EU). It relies to a large extent on satellite data.

The world gets warmer annually no thanks to large holes in the Ozone layer from carbon emissions and chlorofluorocarbons.

Governments across the world and NGOs have long been preaching the gospel of 'going green' in attempts to reverse the damage done to the planet by humans.