
2014 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR
The latest findings shows that every year since 2000 has been among the warmest since the middle of the industrial revolution.
Fourteen of the fifteen hottest years have all been this century. We expect global warming to continue, giving that rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the increasing heat content of the oceans are committing us to a warmer future. Compared to the period 1961 to 1990 when global air temperatures over land and sea surface temperatures were 14C on average, 2014 measured 15.57C WMO highlighted that the record sea surface temperatures in 2014 as further evidence ofclimate change. The oceans absorb around 93 percent of all of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases. These rising temperatures are clearly having an impact on weather events around the globe, says WMO.
An ice cap in the high Arctic has lost what British scientists say is a significant amount of ice in an unusually short time. It has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012—about one sixth of its original thickness—and the ice flow is now 25 times faster, accelerating to speeds of several kilometers per year.
The average temperature was 1.1? above the 20th century average according to JMA?s data. That edges 1998, the previous warmest year, by about 0.1?. One big difference between 2014 and 1998 is that the latter was on the tail end of a super El Nino, which has the tendency to spike temperatures. In comparison, 2014 was the year of the almost El Nino. So now do you think that you should allow 2015 to break this record or not? Start today and stop bringing a change to climate
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