Scientists measuring average global temperature say that July was the hottest month ever recorded, hotter than the July 2016 which followed an El Nino event. El Nino events lead to higher temperatures in the year they occur (2016 followed this pattern), but this year was not an El Nino year and the temperature still set records.
Due to the high heat, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting much more than usual. And the water measured for this melting does not include water added to the ocean when an iceberg forms (calves) from a glacier. It is just the water that melted.
https://theglobepost.com/2019/08/05/climate-change-july/
It is quite obvious we need to act on climate. There are many things that individuals can do themselves, and we can insist that our county, state, and federal leaders pass policies and operate in ways that help. Reducing energy use, sealing leaks, buying energy efficient appliances, carpooling or taking transit, using electric vehicles or buses, asking your school board to buy electric school buses when they replace aging buses in the fleet, eating vegetarian one or more days a week are just some of the things we can do now, that are easy to achieve.
