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"ever" is added for sensationalism and actually means "during the (relatively short) period of climate observations starting from 1991".

PS. September was quite warm, indeed.

Bit longer than that. BBC has a good graph actually. Goes back to 1940.

The article mentions 1991. 1940 is better, but not by a large extent and definitely not enough to justify the use of "ever".