July 2021 Was The Single Hottest Month In The Entire History of Mankind- For Now

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- The dried and cracked soil in an irrigation ditch next to a corn field on a farm in Fresno, Calif., July 24, 2021. - Central Valley farmers, desperate for water to irrigate crops amid a severe drought & government & environmental regulations cutting off their supply of surface water, are turning to an ancient & non-scientific technique- 'dowsing' or 'water witching'- the practice of using a forked stick, rod, pendulum, or similar device to locate underground water, minerals, or other hidden or lost substances. It has been a subject of discussion & controversy for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
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Daily Kos, Aug. 14, 2021.

It’s easy to break records when you just keep going faster. Put the foot on the accelerator and now you’re going faster, and now you’re going faster, and now you’re going faster. Every moment is a new “record” until something gives out. This works whether you’re headed down the highway, or directly off a cliff.

When it comes to the climate crisis, the regularity of “the hottest [insert time period here] ever” has become almost monotonous. That’s not hard when last year tied for the hottest year on record. And when the year it tied with came just four years earlier. Or when, as NASA reports, the last seven years are the seven hottest years. For seven years in a row, every July has been both the hottest July on record, and also the coolest July going forward. It. Just. Keeps. Getting. Hotter.

So, NPR’s reporting of the latest data from NOAA should hit no one as a great surprise—this July set records again. But this July didn’t just edge past every other July, it outpaced every other month to capture a new crown: The hottest month in human history. Or at least, it was the hottest month in the 142 years that NOAA has kept records. And while right wing think tanks have been pushing a line that “most of the last 10,000 years” have been warmer than the past century … it will surprise no one that those claims are simply wrong.

As NASA’s Earth Observatory makes clear, temperatures now are easily warmer than at any time in the last 1,000 years, and there are good reasons to think that record extends back much longer—perhaps longer than human beings have been carving symbols into stone or pressing them into clay tablets. And we know exactly why. Because in June, the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory recorded a level of 419 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. That’s the highest level ever observed. The highest level since at least the middle of the Pliocene epoch, some 4.1 million years ago...

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/14/2045799/-July-2021-was-the-single-hottest-month-in-the-entire-history-of-mankind-for-now

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. We have an assummption that our temperatures are gonna increase gradually

But what's to stop it from hitting 150 degrees or even higher next summer, and staying hot all year round?