This was the third consecutive year of record maximum sea ice extent.
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Conversely, NOAA said a late June cold outbreak in New Zealand lead to the coldest temperatures, there, in 20 years, including a teeth-chattering June 24th low of -21 degrees Celsius (-5.8 degrees Fahrenheit) at Tara Hills.
Sea surface temperatures were record high: The globally averaged sea surface temperature was the highest on record.
As for reversing this terrifying trend, the global community is preparing to meet in December for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, during which world leaders will decide the best course of action to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The State of the Climate in 2014 is the 25th edition in a peer-reviewed series published annually as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
“If this current El Niño does continue to strengthen, it seems almost certain that 2015 will beat out 2014 as the warmest year on record”. Commonly temperature information are broken by one or two a person-hundredths of a degree, not just about a quarter of a degree, Blunden stated.
The picture is even more dramatic when the half-year statistics are considered.
Carroll said the average high for June was 0.1 degree below normal and the average low was 1.3 degrees above normal.
Global weather observations have all arrived at the same conclusion: This June broke all temperature records, while the first half of 2015 already promises the hottest year in more than 100 years of records. Africa had above-average temperatures across most of the continent throughout 2014, Australia saw its third warmest year on record, Mexico had its warmest year on record, and Argentina and Uruguay each had their second warmest year on record. But in 2010, the El Niño petered out. This year, forecasters are predicting this El Nino will get much better, not weaker. Southern Pakistan had a June heatwave that killed more than 1,200 people – which, according to an worldwide database, makes it the eighth deadliest in the world since 1900.
“If that happens, it’s just going to go off the charts”, Blunden said. Earth has broken regular monthly warmth records twenty five times considering that the 12 months 2000, but hasn’t damaged a month to month chilly history given that 1916.
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In studying the effect a solar minimum might have on the Earth’s climate, Georg Feulner, the deputy chair of the Earth system analysis research domain at the Potsdam Institute on Climate Change Research, found that temperature drops correlated to a less intense sun would be insignificant compared with anthropogenic global warming.
