The announcement follows NOAA’s findings earlier this month that 2016, with an average temperature of 54.9 degrees, was the second-hottest year in the United States since records began in 1895 (and second only to 2012).
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Climate scientists around the world just announced that 2016 is the warmest year on record, beating out 2015 and 2014 for the dubious distinction.
In an article that was published on CBS News, it was revealed that 16 of the 17 hottest years ever recorded happened in the 21st century, based on figures by the WMO.
The first eight months of the year had record high temperatures for their respective months. Sea levels are rising, sea ice is disappearing, extreme weather is becoming more common and oceans are acidifying at alarming rates. This is the third consecutive year that broke global temperature records.
That’s a lot of records.
This graphic makes clear that 2016 exceeded past years by a considerable amount, owing to NASA’s inclusion of Arctic temperature data.
The average surface temperature of Earth was 0.94°C (1.69°F) above the 20th century average. El Nińo, meanwhile, also intensified the weather, said NASA climate scientists Gavin Schmidt.
What they discovered: the natural factors’ contribution to the record heat is so close to zero, with the long-term trend being seen today surfacing as the effect of human activity.
The team said they will continue to provide their assessments to the American people. Trump voters must help us get past it. There was record warmth in parts of every major ocean basin, with particularly high warming in the north Pacific near Alaska, parts of the southern and western Pacific and the central Atlantic.
Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were around 0.07 degree Celsius above the 2015 mark. Scientists predicted it at the start of 2016, and after April they were 99 percent certain.
Pruitt told lawmakers Wednesday he believes in the existence of climate change, but his appointment, along with statements by Trump that suggest climate change is a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese government, leave scientists anxious.
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Meanwhile, NASA found that the earth’s average surface temperature in 2016 increased approximately 2.0 degrees since the late 19th century.
