Not really surprising. Thus far, the year has been the warmest on record (NOAA says there's a '100% chance it will rank in the top five' - encouraging!)[1] and

Not really surprising. Thus far, the year has been the warmest on record (NOAA says there's a '100% chance it will rank in the top five' - encouraging!)[1] and that includes the record-shattering 2023. The top ten warmest years, thus far, are just the past ten years, slightly rearranged. The Pudding's tracker shows a sea of red [recent hottest days - admittedly, the default is only calendar days, eg the hottest July 22 ever, the hottest July 21 ever, etc][2] Even the oil companies have abandoned outright denialism. [1] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202406#season-temp https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/g.... [2] https://pudding.cool/projects/heat-records-map/ https://pudding.cool/projects/heat-records-map/