The planet is continuing to wake up . Month after month , we have been break temperature records , something that search set to continue now for the rest of the year . Though these are take on on just a calendar month by calendar month basis , when looked at for a 12 - calendar month period , a painting emerges that is worryingly consistent . The period cover from June 2015 through to May 2016 was the red-hot 12 month period on record book , a record that has just been burst for the ninth time in a row , reportedThe Guardian .
This means that every single 12 - month period of time ending in September 2015 through to May 2016 has broken the phonograph recording . This word comes following the fact that 2014 and 2015 were both the hottest age on record , and everything so far is pointing to 2016 nail it yet again , which will be the first time ever that three sequent year have break this record . This speedy heating of the planet is starting to be palpate , and nowhere more so than in the Arctic , which has so far experience itslowest summer ice extent .
This is because the Arctic is warm at a charge per unit think to betwice that of the worldwide norm , something that is predicted to have a disastrous shock not only on the mass and wildlife that live in the North , but which could have a knock - on effect for the rest of the major planet . While in the Antarcticsome reportsshow that ice is growing , this is newer , thinner sea ice , and does not make up for the thawing of the compact , previous glaciers in other regions of the continent . Some scientist are now worried that we may have reached the tipping point , and that even if we kibosh burning all fossil fuels now , the planet will carry on to warm for decennary to descend .
While the impregnable El Niño that commence last year clearly had a office to play in the recent records , it can not explicate all the dramatic warming that has been seen over the last decade . There was another monolithic El Niño in 1997 to 1998 , and this kick in to September 1997 to August 1998 breaking the record for the red-hot 12 - month period at that point in time .
But the yr following this menses have continued to boom the record , again and again , think that the September 1997 to August 1998 is now seen as just the 60th warmest 12 - month catamenia . Since there has not been any other meaning El Niño during this following continuance , the atmospheric condition phenomenon clear is n’t to blame for the rise in globular temperatures .
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
