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Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

by Ashtha Lamsal | 19-01-2017 00:54 recommendations 0

Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.

The findings come two days before the inauguration of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese plot and vowed to roll back his predecessor?s efforts to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The data show that politicians cannot wish the problem away. The Earth is heating up, a point long beyond serious scientific dispute, but one becoming more evident as the records keep falling. Temperatures are heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both the natural world and to human civilization.

In 2015 and 2016, the planetary warming was intensified by the weather pattern known as El Niño, in which the Pacific Ocean released a huge burst of energy and water vapor into the atmosphere. But the bigger factor in setting the records was the long-term trend of rising temperature, which scientists say is being driven by increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

?A single warm year is something of a curiosity,? said Deke Arndt, chief of global climate monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ?It?s really the trend, and the fact that we?re punching at the ceiling every year now, that is the real indicator that we?re undergoing big changes.?

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3 Comments

  • Ashtha Lamsal says :
    yeah prayash! thank you for your words. I have not got the actual news about how much degrees butsome online news portal has written 1.1 degree celcius
    Posted 20-01-2017 20:52

  • Prayash Pathak (Chalise) says :
    Its well known fact that our carefree acts are heating up mother nature. Would have been better if temperature was revealed so that conformitary evidence could have been studied.
    Posted 20-01-2017 13:21

  • says :
    It would be better if you revealed the highest temperature that our Earth gained this year. Because this random news of increasing temperature is known to all. So the statistics could help us know more deeply about it.
    Posted 19-01-2017 04:07

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