Scorching hot
temperatures aren't something we associate with winter in rainy old England.
However, December last year (2015) was the hottest month ever recorded around
the world. But despite that, February 2016 has just been named the warmest
month on record.
The data from NASA shows that average surface temperature is the hottest for that month in 100 years of recording.
Jeff Masters, one of the analytical experts who has studied the data told the Guardian:“This result is a true shocker, and yet another reminder of the incessant long-term rise in global temperature resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases.
"We are now hurtling at a frightening pace toward the
globally agreed maximum of 2C warming over pre-industrial levels.”
The recording breaking event comes at the time of and El
Niño event. El Niño is a temporary change in the pacific that
effects climate, pushing warmer waters and air towards Asia in the east.
Despite this being the biggest El Niño event since
1998, Scientists agree that it is human pollution and the contribution the
the greenhouse gas effect is the biggest source of this rise in
global temperature.
CO2 emissions have also risen to over 405 ppm (parts per million) in the last 12 months, higher than the 2014 record of 402.6 ppm.
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