This week we recorded the hottest day in at least 120,000 years. We have to get somewhat close, as we have no reliable measurements, even before humans took their first staggered steps away from Africa more than 100,000 years ago. Or from a time before, when we were just living in Africa, which was before — and while — we started straight. After all, we are talking about a very long time.

We have two this week’s record measurements, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, of the average temperature on Earth, and the old record was completely beaten. On Wednesday, it averages 17.18 degrees on Mother Earth. Old record from 2016, and 16.92 degrees. Suddenly, the average temperature soared nearly 0.3 degrees. This was confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations weather police. We’re talking about a seven mile jump to bad news for all of us.

And the worst do we still have to wait. Meteorologists at the United Nations believe the new record will be set later in July, when it is normally the warmest of the year. The El Nino weather phenomenon has not yet reached its peak. Hot records have been set all over the world.

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Great Britain has left the hottest June ever. The southern United States has been experiencing extreme heat, and has been suffering from a heatwave for several weeks. In parts of China, temperatures reached over 35 degrees Celsius, and heavy rains in the south caused tens of thousands of people to be evacuated. North Africa here experiences temperatures of up to 50 degrees, and in the Middle East tens of thousands of pilgrims carrying out their duties as Muslims suffer from unusual heat, and perform the pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

In this world coldest place, Antarctica, strange things happen too. Measurements on the Argentine continent showed the highest reading for July of 8.7 degrees, which should now be a freezing winter. But we’re experiencing the biggest change in global temperatures in our region, northwards towards the Arctic. The area around the northern Barents Sea is warming 2 to 2.5 times higher than the average in the Arctic, and as much as 5 to 7 times higher than the global average.

– These record-setting temperatures were to be expected due to man-made climate change, Ilan Kelman, professor of disasters and health, a relatively new academic degree that unfortunately has certain career potential, told The Guardian.