ORLANDO, Fla. – The latest data from NASA and NOAA show we just went through the hottest July on record.
NASA held a news conference Monday morning to announce that climate scientists found that July 2023 shattered the previous record, set in 2019, by two-tenths of a degree Celsius.
“Folks, Mother Nature is sending us a message,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “That message is we better act now before it’s too late to save our climate, in other words, to save our planet.”
Dr. Gavin Schmidt with NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said the temperatures are above the trend, partially because of El Nino happening, but Schmidt said we will see the biggest impact of El Nino next year.
“So we’re anticipating that not only is 2023 going to be exceptionally warm and possibly the record warm year, but we anticipate 2024 will be warmer still,” Schmidt said.
NASA is tracking and researching this climate data in the hopes of developing solutions to climate change, or at least mitigating its effects.
Last month, NASA and NOAA found that June 2023 also had the hottest temperatures on record for that month.
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