The ruling in Montana came on the same day that NASA confirmed last month was the warmest July ever recorded on Earth. Sarah Kapnick is NOAA’s chief scientist.

Sarah Kapnick: “It was the warmest July by a long shot, specifically by more than a third of a degree Fahrenheit. That may not sound like a lot, but the margin for most global records is on the order of a hundredth of a degree or two. So last month was way, way warmer than anything we’ve ever seen.”