The planet is burning, but not all hope is lost

This has not happened in thousands of years. This is not global warming. This is global scorching. And the worst is yet to come.

The hottest June on record was followed by the hottest July ever recorded. July 2019 replaced July 2016 as the hottest on record, with the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Programme, which analyzes temperature data from across the world, saying July was warmer than the global average temperature between 1981 and 2010.

Not only was June 2019 the 414th consecutive month in which temperatures were above the 20th-century average but also nine of the 10 hottest Junes in the past 140 years have occurred since 2010, according to a United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report last month.