On Sunday, Earth experienced its hottest day ever recorded in human history, according to the European climate service Copernicus. That record was then broken the very next day, underlining the troubling trajectory global temperatures have taken in the last several years.
The European Union's Copernicus satellite produced preliminary data showing the global average temperature was 17.15º Celsius (62.87º Fahrenheit) on Monday; it had been a mere 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.1 degree Fahrenheit) cooler on Sunday, which still broke the previous record set last year.
