The truth of climate change has long been painfully clear

With apologies to Stevie Wonder, for whom it was once an album title, nothing is "hotter than July." July was the hottest month.

Maybe you're waiting for that sentence to be qualified: "hottest month of the last 20 years," let's say. But it turns out July of 2019 was the hottest month, period -- hottest in the history of record keeping, hottest of all