We Just Lived Through The Hottest June Ever Recorded

In 2002, Nelly ushered a prophecy: "It's getting hot in herre." In 1999, Smash Mouth warned, "My world's on fire, how about yours?", a rhetorical question that only makes sense in the event you assume one of the people in the conversation does not inhabit the same world because the other person and is, and for that reason, an alien from another planet. And in 1987, R.E.M. Knew what the future would hold as soon as they ominously said, "It's the end of the world as we know it."


As it turns out, Nelly, Smash Mouth, and R.E.M. Were all right — it is getting hot in her(r)e. So hot, that June 2019 was the hottest June on record. Ever.


The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a company that provides and analyzes climate intelligence for the European Union, issued a new report on Tuesday, July 2, which confirmed temperatures in Europe were hotter than average by over 2°C (or approximately 3.6 °F) in comparison to past Junes; globally, temperatures were 0.10°C (or 0.18°F) higher than average this June, CNN added, and climate scientists say that our entire globe is about 1°C hotter today than it was two centuries ago.


nevertheless it is complicated to directly attribute this heat wave to climate change, such extreme weather events are expected to be more typical because the planet keeps it up and continues to warm under increasing greenhouse gas concentrations," the report notes.


Information for temperatures in the U.S. Has nevertheless to be analyzed, although if you're looking to chart trends, the federal government likely isn't your best bet. For months, the Trump administration has sought to remove all mentions of "climate change" from official government websites, and a webpage set up to explain temperatures for Independence Day simply argues that "heat is the key aspects of America’s July climate." (According to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information, July is the "hottest month of the year for the contiguous United States," and also being a mobile month for organic disasters like hurricanes, which climate scientists mention will intensify because the climate crisis rages on.)


However weather forecasters have warned of a heatwave hitting large swaths of the nation this week after a record-making heatwave on the west coast caused thousands of mussels to literally cook and die.


"Most of us know that this is going to affect us in our lifetimes – it’s not just something that might happen in the future," climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg told Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a conversation published by The Guardian last week. "It’s already here and it’s going to get worse, and several of us understand that this is going to create our lives much worse."


Although Greta, who rose to global recognition because she started skipping school to protest the government in her native Sweden, also pointed out: "As young people, we aren’t as used to the system. We don’t mention, 'It’s habitually been like this, we can’t change anything.'"


The Democratic National Committee is now debating whether to dedicate one of their 12 scheduled primary debates to climate change immediately after mainly youth activists pressured them to do so. The corporation had previously mentioned it would not host a debate for the offer specifically, and any time the subject came up while in the opening debate, candidates served up susceptible answers. Several Democratic candidates have issued comprehensive climate-change policy proposals; almost all of these running for the nomination support the Green New Deal in some form.