This also makes 2016 the third year of record-setting warmth in a row, a finding that NASA confirmed using a different method. Here’s how they calculated that fact.
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NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt says it’s been 125,000 years since the world was as warm as it was in 2016. “These are a sign of what’s to come as the warming continues”.
“This is not a chance occurrence – without our influence on the climate we wouldn’t be reaching these temperatures”, Dr King said.
NOAA announced at several points in 2016 that individual months broke global temperature records.
With data going back to 1880, the clip shows a gradual ebb and flow of temperature, at least for a while.
Temperature data collected by both NASA and the UK Met Office reveals that 2016 is likely the hottest year ever recorded. They are clearly all “singing the same song”, researchers said. “The summer and the other seasons weren’t particularly warmer than usual”. Arndt is suggesting that this is a clear indication of a global warming trend that began in the late 20th century.
Despite evidence that increasing temperatures fuel everything from severe weather to more fires, it can be hard to drive action without data that shows just how severe the situation has become.
NASA’s figures include more of the Arctic, which was warmer than usual.
The world is changing.
“The Arctic is warming twice as fast the global average”.
Thanks in large part to human activity, unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
Climate scientists and others are concerned about this country’s commitment to reducing the carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases behind climate change as Donald Trump assumes the presidency Friday.
One of the symptoms of rising ocean temperature is destruction of marine ecology.
“Australian governments and private sector companies need to invest in climate change adaptation and resilience measures to now plan for the unavoidable impacts that global warming is already bringing to our shores – quite literally in the case of sea level rise, coral bleaching and coastal erosion”, he adds. “But the real important thing that will give us the most information for the future are the long term trends”.
Any way you slice it, the planet is absolutely getting hotter, and it’s up to us to decide what we’re going to do about it. The researchers gave 57 degrees F (14 degrees C) as NOAA’s estimate, but cautioned that this number was much less accurate than the amount of change.
Right now we’re only.4 degrees away, according to NASA.
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Dr Andrew King, a climate extremes research fellow from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciences and the University of Melbourne, said there was no doubt that humans were driving this warming. By contrast, absolute temperature depends on the exact locations of stations and features like mountains, forests and cities that might not be covered well by the existing measurements.
