So it seems that we are yet to shatter the bar of record - breaking months this yr . The latest figuresfrom NASA show what has now become commonplace to hear : August was the hot August on record . Not only that though , it also marry with a record coiffure only last calendar month , matching July as the hottest month ever recorded .
This now pretend it 11 calendar month straight that each month has been the warmest on record , according to the data point set from NASA , who compares it to the 1951 - 1980 average . They have foundAugust 2016 to be 0.98 ° deoxycytidine monophosphate ( 1.76 ° F ) above this average , and 0.16 ° C ( 0.29 ° F ) above the previous hottest August on phonograph recording that fall out in 2014 . This put it on par with the previous July as being the raging month in the last 136 years .
The historically large El Niño that developed over the Pacific at the destruction of last year and carry on through much of this twelvemonth is to pick for some of the special disk - smash heat that has been experience this twelvemonth . But experts also point out that the trend was likely to have come regardless . Now that NASAhas in the end announcedEl Niño to be over , it will be interesting to see how September compare , and whether or not the intense warming will carry on without its influence .
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) is set to free its figures over the next few days , and while they may differ slightly in the number of months that have broken book due to slenderly different baselines used by the NOAA and NASA , the overall trend is startlingly similar .
And it is this course that the Director of NASA ’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin Schmidt wants to emphasize . you could niggle all you require about the small difference between months , but the steady upward creep of world temperatures is clear .
“ Monthly rankings , which change by only a few one percent of a level , are inherently fragile,”saysSchmidt . “ We accent that the prospicient - term course are the most authoritative for understanding the on-going change that are touch our major planet . ”
With China and the US late ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement , and Brazil chop-chop following suit , it seems that perhaps political leader have finally woken up to the threat of mood change , but is it in time ? Experts already agree that the target set of limiting warm to below 1.5 ° degree centigrade ( 2.7 ° F ) is essentially unachievable unless radical reform is incite .
