Climatologists: July Is The Hottest Month In About 120,000 Years

Vast areas of three continents are burning under scorching temperatures, and ocean temperatures are rising to unprecedented levels.

Scientists from global climate change bodies say that this July will be the hottest month in the history of the planet by a large margin.

Temperatures in July were so extreme that it is "almost certain" that this month will break records "by a large margin", according to a report published by the European Union's Copernicus Center for Climate Change and the World Meteorological Organization.

And it looks like we've just experienced the hottest three-week period on record, almost certainly in hundreds of thousands of years.

These are often broken records that track the average air temperature around the world.

Many scientists say these temperatures are almost certainly the hottest the planet has seen in 120,000 years, based on what we know from climate data from tree rings, coral reefs, and deep-sea sediment cores.