It now seems inevitable that 2016 will be the hottest year on record . The late preliminary datacomes from the World Meteorological Organization , who are betoken that this class will not only be the warmest , but that it will mark a young high for the third year in a row .
“ Another twelvemonth . Another record . The high-pitched temperatures we saw in 2015 are typeset to be quiver in 2016,”saidWMO Secretary - General Petteri Taalas . “ The additional heat energy from the powerful El Niño event has disappear . The heat from global warming will continue . ”
Using the datacollected over the last nine calendar month , the WHO have base that global temperature were 1.2 ° degree centigrade ( 2.2 ° F ) above pre - industrial levels , when it is widely believed carbon emissions started to ramp up . While the powerful El Nino experienced at the end of last year and the first of this one did have a role to play , it is still only secondary to the continual salary increase in atmospheric CO2levels , which have now stand out 400 share per million and are unconvincing to drop down below this within a generation .
Millions of people are now being impacted by rude disasters amplified by clime change . Dmytro Vietrov / Shutterstock
But not only are the unforesightful - terminus climate index number going off the scale of measurement , the long - term phonograph record arealso being smashed . As mentioned , carbon dioxide immersion in the air are at the gamey they have been for ten of millions of years , in addition to the Arctic ocean ice stay on at phonograph recording or newfangled record Sir David Alexander Cecil Low and the melt of the Greenland ice sheet accelerating . This has contributed to an increment in the frequency and intensity of natural catastrophe , including the drought that hit the east coast of the US and Hurricane Matthew that convulse Haiti .
“ Because of climate modification , the occurrent and encroachment of utmost events has risen . ‘ Once in a generation ’ heatwaves and flooding are becoming more regular,”saysMr Taalas . “ In parts of Arctic Russia , temperatures were 6 ° carbon to 7 ° C above the long - term average . Many other Arctic and sub - Arctic region in Russia , Alaska and northwest Canada were at least 3 ° C above norm . We are used to measuring temperature track record in fraction of a degree , and so this is different . ”
The novel data come on the heels of another finding : For the last three long time , ball-shaped carbon emissions have seemingly stabilise . It is reckon that as the oceans warm , they are able-bodied hold less carbon dioxide . rather , the C dioxide builds up in the atmosphere and increases the temperature , which in turn limits the amount of C that plants can sequester . This string of events has meant that despite carbon copy emission leveling off , temperatures and atmospherical CO2are still rising .
