Hot Enough For 'Yer?

The US National Centers for Environmental Prediction have reported that at 62.62°F or 17.01°C, July 3 was the Earth’s hottest day on record but the ink must have still been wet in the Guinness Book of records because whoever at the NCEP is in charge of these things was pushed out again to announce that the record lasted 1 day because the very next Day, July 4th, was even hotter.    
It does take a bit or reading but it states with an average Global temperature of 62.9°F or 17.10°C, it was the hottest day on our planet for the last 125,000 years during the Middle Paleolithic age and they put this months spike down to a mixture of global warming, summer heating up in parts north of the equator and El Niño and warned: 'Looking to the future, we can expect global warming to continue and hence temperature records to be broken increasingly frequently'.
Then it goes into zettajoules of excess heat and explains that 1 zettajoule is 1021 joules (1 ZJ = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 J) which is far too many zero's for my brain but due to our reckless actions over the last few centuries, we are basically entering new territory where the warmest this or the hottest that headlines will be quite common going forward.