WMO - Record Global Temperatures Only One Of Multiple Disturbing Climate Trends

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that 2015 will set (or already has set) a variety of worrisome climate records due to manmade carbon pollution:

2011-2015 “have been the warmest five-year period on record, with many extreme weather events – especially heatwaves – influenced by climate change.”

2015 is set to be the hottest year on record by far, with the highest ocean surface temperatures ever monitored.

It’s “probable” that total global warming since the industrial revolution will cross the 1°C (1.8°F).

The 3-month average of Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels “crossed the 400 parts per million barrier for the first time.”

“This is all bad news for the planet,” noted WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. In particular, crossing the 1°C (1.8°F) means we are halfway to the 2°C (3.6°F) threshold that world’s top scientists and governments have identified as the defense line past which climate impacts become very dangerous and then catastrophic.

Last week, NASA data made clear that 2015 was going to crush the record for hottest year. On top of the underlying human-caused warming trend is the short-term warming caused by a very strong El Niño. As the top chart shows, global temperature records tend to be set in El Niño years, and those records just get higher and higher over time because of carbon pollution.

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/25/3725792/hottest-5-years-record/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Thank god the Reich Wing knows all the sciency stuff is bogus.

else I would be worried.

[Canoe52]

2. Give thanks for that!

We is saved!!!!