July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
Personally I think that the idea that these trends can ever be revered by some sort of world wide agreement to lower consumption is a pipe dream. People want to eat meat and drive cars and fly on airplanes. As long as they're rich enough to do so you'll never stop them.<p>The only solution to this problem is technology. Some combination of green energy sources plus probably very large scale terraforming.