July 2024 was the second-hottest month on record, the European Union’s climate change service Copernicus said on Thursday. Last month saw a global average temperature of 16.91 degrees Celsius, only 0.04 degrees lower than the average temperature in July 2023, which remains the hottest month ever recorded. The world previously saw monthly average temperature records broken for 13 months in a row from May 2023. “The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker,” Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said. “The overall context hasn’t changed, our climate contin…