But, to do as you ought to have done rather than type and copy and paste this story in the comments, I googled: global temperature data for last 100 years. The first response is from NOAA which has reasonably accurate temp data since 1880. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series/globe/land_...
October 2019 data is not yet added, but it does already indicate that September 2019 was the hottest on record, and that the top of a sorted list of hottest months ever recorded features very few months not in the 21st century. It's interesting. Poke around.
Also, friend, .69 degrees C more in the global temperature average is not, not at all, a narrow margin. Variations exist in these global averages for sure, and they are often naturally occurring and they can be bigger than that but .69 is not small. Check it out.
Report:
>0.69°C warmer than the average October from 1981-2010, making it by a narrow margin the warmest October in this data record;
>an insignificant 0.01°C warmer than October 2015, the second warmest October;
>0.09°C warmer than October 2017, the third warmest October.
I don't want to be a "climate change denier" or whatever, but what if 1980 was hotter? It sound like things are largely in line with the last 5 years. The report is (probably) good data collection, but this kind of reporting by CBS doesn't seem useful -- other than to mislead.