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Data from thousands of surface monitoring stations worldwide, including ocean buoys in the Pacific and land-based thermometers dotting the continents, show that July 2019 was either the warmest or second-warmest month on Earth since at least 1850.

Berkeley Earth, an independent climate monitoring and research organization, found in data released Thursday that last month beat August 2016 for the title of the warmest month by 0.14 degrees (0.08 Celsius).

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“Though the margin is small, given the uncertainty range, we consider July 2019 to have set a new record for the highest monthly average temperature,” the organization said in an analysis. Previously, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service had found that July 2019 was the warmest month on record, though by a small margin compared to its previous hottest month on record.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also announced Thursday that July was the warmest month on record, with the global average surface temperature coming in at 1.71 degrees (0.95 Celsius) warmer than the 20th century average.