July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began. pic.twitter.com/GQNsvARPDH— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) August 15, 2016
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies just published new data finding that July 2016 was the hottest month ever recorded. No, not the hottest in 2016, not in the last decade — since humans began tracking global temperatures back in 1880.