As if a country suffering through a long-running drought and a wave of wildfires couldn't tell, scientists say January 2020 was the warmest January on record.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service says skyrocketing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations resulted in global warming that pushed last month over the previous warmest January in 2016 by 0.03 C Degrees.  But in Europe, the new record holder was 3.1 C Degrees warmer than the 1981-2010 average.

The five last years have been the hottest on record, as was the ten-year period 2010-2019.  

Overall, Earth has warmed by a little over 1 C Degrees warmer since the 1880s.  However, if carbon emissions continue rising with little to no efforts to slash fossil fuel use, the globe is currently on track to warm by around another 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit this century - if not more.